Asia-Pacific
Most of the world’s new generation is built here. China’s scale, India’s growth, and an Australian grid running the highest renewable share of any large system.
State of play
DLA Piper survey finds merchant BESS appeal at 63% in Singapore and 53% in Australia, against just 22% in Japan. A DLA Piper report on Japan, Singapore and Australia finds merchant BESS appetite split sharply by market structure, with regulatory certainty and grid access driving the divide.
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StorageBeijing freezes approvals for new energy storage battery factories as planned capacity hits 1.5 times 2025 output
China's MIIT halted greenfield ESS battery factory approvals in May 2026, with ~100 new projects already announced carrying 2,608 GWh of planned capacity - nearly 1.5 times last year's total output.
13 Oct 2026
RenewablesØrsted buys out Japanese partners in Gunfleet Sands for £15 million
Ørsted has exercised a long-standing buyback right to acquire the remaining 49.9% of the 172 MW Gunfleet Sands 1 & 2 offshore wind farm for £15 million, with closing expected in November 2026.
13 Oct 2026Ready-to-build BESS projects lose their premium as Australia's NEM arbitrage spreads collapse 85%
Panellists at the Battery Asset Management Summit Australia 2026 said the venture-capital-style returns that once rewarded ready-to-build BESS projects have disappeared as NEM price spreads fell 85% in a year.
10 Sept 2026
Data CentresFlexSysAI tests AI workload orchestration on live H200 cluster at ResetData's AI-F1 facility
FlexSysAI has launched a grid-flexibility pilot with ResetData, CSIRO, and the University of Queensland, testing AI workload shifting on a live Nvidia H200 cluster in Australia's NEM.
10 Sept 2026
RenewablesDong Fang Offshore launches Orient Trailblazer hull in Romania, delivery set for Q2 2027
Dong Fang Offshore's first newbuild offshore subsea construction vessel was launched at VARD's Brăila yard on 21 August. Delivery to Taiwan is scheduled for Q2 2027.
7 Sept 2026
StorageBW ESS asset manager flags spare parts containers as overlooked theft risk at Australian BESS sites
A BW ESS asset manager and an Energy Safe Victoria regulator told the Battery Asset Management Summit Australia 2026 that copper theft and unsecured spare parts are a growing risk at grid-scale BESS sites.
7 Sept 2026
The Daily BriefThe Daily Baseload Brief
PUCT holds August 20 open meeting on ERCOT Batch Zero audit; CATL certifies all 20 plants carbon neutral; global storage cell shipments nearly double in H1 2026. Power sector digest for 21 August 2026.
21 Aug 2026
Data CentresNextEra unlocks $3.3 billion in U.S.-Japan funding to build 9.5 GW of gas generation for data center load
NextEra Energy executed definitive agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce and Japan on 12 August 2026, releasing $3.3 billion to advance two gas-fired hubs in Texas and Pennsylvania.
19 Aug 2026
RenewablesNew Zealand adopts 15-recommendation solar review, targeting six-day residential approvals
New Zealand's government has accepted all 15 recommendations from its solar regulatory review, cutting residential approval times from three months to six days and legalizing plug-in solar.
18 Aug 2026
GridChina cut crude imports 32% in Q2 2026 and is now re-entering the oil market from a position of structural strength
China's Q2 2026 crude import collapse - down 32% to 8.1 mb/d - was not just a price response. A decade of EV, rail, and coal-to-liquids investment means Beijing now buys oil on its own terms.
15 Aug 2026
Data CentresMalaysia's Palm Oil Board nears commercial launch of Sawit EcoTherm immersion cooling fluid for data centers
Malaysia's MPOB is finalising a licensing agreement for Sawit EcoTherm, a palm oil-based immersion cooling fluid that could cut data center water use - but raises land-use questions.
15 Aug 2026
StorageRelyEZ refiles HKEX application as Chinese storage firms treat Hong Kong as gateway to global capital
RelyEZ Energy Storage Technology refiled its HKEX Main Board application on 9 August 2026, joining a wave of Chinese storage firms using Hong Kong as a bridge to institutional investors worldwide.
14 Aug 2026