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✅ Roughly speaking 🧭 Companies struggling to grow in emerging markets often fall into either product-seeking, agency-based, or client-run operations. 📍 The core of the problem seems to be that companies pile up their guns while the comparison axis for measuring their position remains unclear. 🛣 Now...

✅ Roughly speaking 🇹🇭 Thailand has imposed a purchase subsidy of up to 100,000 baht on the EV 3.5 package (2024–2027) under its "30@30" policy, and a domestic production of two (2026) 〜 three (2027) units per imported car It is considered to be the most structured manufacturing attraction strategy in Southeast Asia...

✅ Roughly speaking, 🔋 BESS (Battery Energy Storage System, Battery Storage System) is not just a facility or technology, but can be considered a "business design" topic that includes system operations, electricity markets, PPAs, aggregation, finance, guarantees, and even recycling. ⚡ Electricity in Southeast Asia...

✅ Roughly speaking 🏭 As megatech companies evade Singapore's regulations flood Johor and the Klang Valley, Malaysia's data center (DC) electricity demand is predicted to grow to over 5 GW in 2035 ⚡ National power company TNB is making huge investments in the grid, but AI...

Misawa, the representative of our agency, published an article on his blog outlining the practical considerations when entering the grid battery business. While an increasing number of companies are considering entering the grid battery business, taking advantage of their experience in the solar power generation business, the way the business is structured is significantly different from that of solar power...

✅ Roughly speaking 🏢 Malaysia and Indonesia have established legal oversight bodies, but in many cases they are not functioning effectively 📊 Indonesia's two-tier system places structural risks on "information blocking," while Malaysia's one-tier system places structural risks on "nominal independent directors."

✅ Roughly speaking ⚡ CRESS cuts grid access fees by up to 40% in August 2025: Farm-supplied SAC reaches 20 sen/kWh, emerging as a viable option for 24-hour factories 🔄 Structural shift in the electricity market through third-party access (TPA): From TNB's single-buyer model...

✅ Roughly speaking 🔄 A complete shift from the "electricity sales model" to the "self-consumption model": Solar ATAP, which will begin on January 1, 2026, will mean a shift from the traditional NEM 3.0 fixed-price electricity sales model to market price-linked (SMP). In particular, the surplus electricity of merchants and industrialists is at wholesale prices (estimated RM0.20-0.30/kWh...

Recently, a comment from our CEO, Mitsuru Misawa, was published in the special report "Malaysia's Potential as a Biofuel Hub" published by JETRO (published on December 10, 2025). The report covers Malaysia's decarbonization roadmap (NETR) and the country's green energy transition...

✅ Roughly speaking 🌞, fundamental conditions change for the next LSS bidding: In order to improve grid reliability, a policy has been indicated ♻️ that the installation of BESS (battery energy storage system) in large-scale solar power generation projects will be a mandatory requirement Disposal regulations directly related to the exit strategy: EPC matters...