Banpu NEXT is targeting the Asia-Pacific region’s battery-based clean energy opportunities with battery manufacturer Durapower.

Gotion High-Tech aims to build gigafactory in Thailand targeting the electric vehicle (EV) and stationary storage markets.

Sungrow has signed MOU to collaborate on energy transition topics with Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand.

What is thought to be Southeast Asia’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) to date will be supplied to a solar PV-plus-storage project in Thailand by Sungrow. 

Thailand-headquartered renewable energy group BCPG will invest US$24 million into vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) manufacturer VRB Energy, aimed at accelerating VRB’s utility-scale VRFB business.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) and controls technology will be provided to a “smart industrial park” project in Thailand by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan deal for its first wind energy-plus-battery storage project in Thailand, which is also the country’s first private sector initiative to combine the two technologies at scale.

Following announcements from various manufacturers of deployments and partnerships in new territories, the latest wave of flow battery news includes an agreement that could put batteries in space for mission critical applications at the likes of NASA and the International Space Station.

‘Hybridising’ energy storage systems by combining lithium-ion and flow batteries, shares the power and energy application workloads between the two types of battery and can prolong their life expectancy, a representative of Thai engineering firm TSUS Group has said.