Energy storage projects will be eligible to take part in competitive capacity auctions for low-carbon power set to be launched this month by the Japanese government.
Developer Gurin Energy is so convinced of Japan’s energy storage market potential that it is planning a single project equivalent to the country’s entire installed base of lithium-ion battery storage.
Nuvve, a US startup focused on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies, has been selected to manage grid-connected stationary battery storage in Japan with a combined capacity of 30MWh.
The nascent grid-scale energy storage market in Japan now has its first-ever dedicated investment fund, and it will be jointly managed by Gore Street Capital, which launched one of the UK’s.
Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JinkoSolar is supplying large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to customers in Nigeria and Japan, totalling 20MWh of combined capacity.
Blackrock-owned developer Akaysha and Japanese conglomerate Itochu have entered into a strategic alliance to develop battery storage projects in Japan.
Sumitomo Electric will supply an 8-hour duration vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) to a recently-established municipal power company in Niigata, Japan.
