Gotion High Tech has continued its push into Japan’s battery storage market, forming a partnership with investor Daiwa and renewable energy engineering and O&M firm CO2OS.

Marubeni Corporation will build and own a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.   

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has begun the process of tendering for 4,000MWh of grid-scale battery storage which will be supported by government Viability Gap Funding.

The largest battery storage facility in India is now online and was visited last week by the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

A large-scale battery storage facility providing ancillary services to the grid has gone into commercial operation at the site of a hydroelectric power plant in the Philippines.

US vehicle-to-grid startup Nuvve continues push into Asia market, negotiating for a project planned by Taiwan’s grid operator and utility.

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.  

A renewable energy subsidiary of the Philippine conglomerate Lopez Group has contracted for the deployment of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources at three geothermal sites.

Proposed new ancillary service market rules could adversely impact business case for battery storage, Cornwall Insight Australia says.

More than AU$1 billion (US$0.65 billion) of financial commitments to large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects were made in Australia in the second quarter of this year.