Vietnam is confronting barriers to energy storage deployment, setting an example for the wider ASEAN region, writes Sunita Dubey.

Chinese battery manufacturer EVE Energy has secured a contract with the Malaysian government to deploy an AC/DC integrated 36MWh solar-plus-storage system at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

A 100MW/400MWh BESS, the biggest project of its kind by output in Southeast Asia, has been welcomed into operation in Sabah, Malaysia.

Vena Energy has signed a battery storage supply agreement with CATL for a project which would export renewable energy from Indonesia to Singapore.

Manoa Energy and HD Renewable Energy Japan have begun commercial operation of a 50MW/104MWh battery storage project in Hokkaido, Japan.

The World Bank will invest in a huge 4GW, 5.12GWh solar-plus-storage complex in Malaysia, part of a pan-Southeast Asian power grid initiative.

Utility Osaka Gas and developer Sonnedix are installing what is claimed to be the largest battery storage facility co-located with renewable energy generation in Japan so far.

Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure (DEI), an asset manager backed by investment bank Daiwa Securities, has invested in a large-scale battery storage project in northern Japan.

Singapore’s Jurong Island looks set to host a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant with integrated battery storage.

Energy trading company Foxwell Power (FWP) has contracted Saft to supply a battery storage solution for a 356MWh project in Taiwan.