The grid modernization and electric vehicle charging tech company announced in December that it partnered with the Korean company Volt to participate in the Korea Power Exchange’s energy storage central auction and proceed with a national-scale battery-energy-storage project that will provide storage for up to 95 megawatts of power.
Nuvve’s Japanese subsidiary is leading the NuvveVolt consortium, which Nuvve co-founder and CEO Gregory Poilasne argued will position the company as a key player in the energy storage and battery industries in both Japan and South Korea.
“It’s a fairly large battery that we’ll be deploying to that project, but it’s very much in line with our global strategy around battery deployments,” Poilasne said.
Nuvve also announced toward the end of 2025 that it secured an agreement with a customer in Tainai City, Japan, to act as the aggregator for the customer’s existing storage battery infrastructure that has an output of 1,999 kilowatts and a capacity of more than 8,100 megawatt hours.
Under the agreement, Nuvve will be responsible for operations in the supply-demand adjustment market and the wholesale electricity market, generating revenue for the customer while aiding in maintaining power grid stabilization in the region.
“The battery business is exploding in Japan,” Poilasne said. “It’s also now moving pretty fast in Korea as well.”
