The first utility-scale battery project in Tonga officially opened today at an event attended by the South Pacific Kingdom’s prime minister.

We speak to Powin Energy’s Danny Lu in the latest of our interview series with industry leaders at RE+ 2022 clean energy trade show.

Wärtsilä will supply two 10MW/10MWh battery energy storage systems to a utility in the Cayman Islands.

Republic of Maldives has reopened a tender process, seeking to procure 40MWh of battery energy storage systems.

ENGIE has pulled out of a large-scale solar-plus-storage project contract in the Western Pacific US island territory of Guam.

Island nations Mauritius and Barbados have both begun renewable energy procurement processes that involve energy storage.

Wärtsilä has given details of the energy storage system it will supply to utility company Bahamas Power & Light (BPL).

Residential energy storage system provider Eguana will begin deploying devices to operate as a connected virtual power plant on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Energy storage can make a “positive contribution everywhere” in Southeast Asia, but the industry needs to be proactive in helping market regulators to understand the best ways to facilitate its role in their energy systems.

The Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives has begun tendering for 40MW / 40MWh of battery energy storage systems across several regions.