The Energy Storage Summit Asia begins with a welcome from Energy Storage News: the leading global publisher of energy storage information.

Learn about Energy Storage News' take on the latest and most important energy storage developments and work happening in the APAC market across the past year.

The success of energy storage project deployment highly depends on regulation. To facilitate the deployment of energy storage projects this panel sheds light on:

• What the current regulatory challenges are in each of the markets.
• How policies across the APAC region vary, how they are likely to evolve over the next 5 years and where the opportunities may emerge to deploy a greater volume of energy storage technologies.
• How energy storage policies in the APAC region compares with the rest of the world, and what can be learned and what should be avoided?

What is the strategic role of energy storage technologies for the Asia-Pacific region? This panel debates how much attention should be paid to energy storage technologies by discussing:

• How energy storage technologies can be used to ensure that energy is used more efficiently by developing industries.
• How best to support the penetration of renewables on Asian-Pacific energy grids.
• The relative importance of energy storage to other clean energy generation technologies for facilitating decarbonisation.
• To what extent does energy storage make it easier for countries to attract ESG investment.

• Ensuring financing and investment can happen by understanding the regulations on financing and investment in energy infrastructure.
• Local investment, foreign investment or a mixture or both? How can projects be best supported.
• Addressing risk and returns by understanding the different financing tools that can be used to finance projects.
• How can foreign and local financiers form great partnerships to facilitate the financing of energy storage projects.

• Making sure that people are skilled enough to operate and maintain microgrids with energy storage to ensure that it functions efficiently.
• Prolonging the lifetime of the microgrid by managing technological challenges.
• Where there are opportunities for microgrids with energy storage.
• Financing microgrids given credit and counterparty risks.
• Evaluating to what extent diesel can be taken off microgrids by deploying energy storage.

• Where local supply chains can be taken advantage of to support energy storage projects.
• How can supply chains in the APAC region be resilient to external shocks and commodity price volatility.
• How battery innovation in East Asia can facilitate high performing energy storage projects across the region.
• Using the right software to ensure high-performing battery energy storage systems.
• Working well with an EPC to install battery energy storage systems at a low cost.

• Identifying which markets need long duration energy storage.
• Which countries can rely on pumped hydro and gas peakers rather than batteries, or will use a combination?
• Picking homegrown talent – what are the best local innovations that can support high-performing energy storage systems?
• Which technologies can scale?
• Which applications are technologies like lithium-ion or flow batteries best suited for.

• Identifying the markets in the Asia-Pacific region that hybrid battery projects can generate revenue.
• Guidance on how to model the returns on energy storage projects for standalone and hybrid to attract investment.
• The role storage can play in preventing the curtailment of renewables.

In these sessions, join with independent generators, developers, asset owners, financiers, policymakers, off-takers and technology providers to discuss best what the best practice for developing energy storage projects looks like.

From these discussion groups you will leave with a better understanding about:

• Which regions can benefit the most from each type of project?
• Which technologies are best used for each type of project?
• How bankable are each of the types of projects?

Each discussion group will involve 8 to 12 people and will be guided by a moderator. The discussion will be held under Chatham House Rules meaning that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Discussion Group One: ...Standalone

Discussion Group Two: ...Co-located with Wind

Discussion Group Three: ...Co-located with Solar