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Our Story

FESSIA stands for the Future Energy Storage & System Integration Alliance. We are a regional platform advancing flexible, resilient, and low-carbon power systems across Southeast Asia.

By focusing on energy storage and system integration, we help turn ambitious renewable energy targets into stable, reliable power systems for the region. 

FESSIA was established following Liming Qiao’s award of the Climate Breakthrough Award 2025, which enabled the organisation’s creation and early development.

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Our Identity

FESSIA draws inspiration from a resilient flower that thrives in harsh conditions, yet continues to grow and adapt. 

This reflects our approach to the energy transition: navigating competing priorities, system constraints, and evolving markets with resilience and clarity. Like the flower, we remain grounded, resilient, and focused on building what is needed for the future.

Our visual identity reflects the interconnected nature of modern power systems. The individual elements represent key components, including energy storage, working together in a dynamic, evolving structure. 

At its core is system integration, enabling these parts to function as a coordinated whole and support reliable renewable energy integration at scale.

What We Do

We bring together industry, policymakers, utilities, academia, and civil society to address the practical challenges of integrating large shares of solar, wind, and other variable renewable energy.

Our work is anchored in the Route-to-Market framework, which creates clear pathways for deploying battery energy storage systems in the near term and long-duration energy storage in the years ahead. 

Based in Singapore, we focus on Tier 1 markets in Vietnam and the Philippines, with expansion across ASEAN.

The Challenge We See

Southeast Asia is rapidly scaling solar and wind power to meet net-zero targets. As more variable renewable energy is integrated into power systems, maintaining grid stability and reliability becomes increasingly complex. 

Flexible power systems and large-scale energy storage are essential to ensure the energy transition can progress at scale and at speed. 

We see this not as a barrier, but as a clear opportunity to act.

What We Want to Achieve

We aim to enable flexible and resilient power systems across ASEAN that support high shares of renewable energy while maintaining reliability, affordability, and energy security. 

By 2030, we seek to accelerate widespread deployment of battery energy storage systems. Beyond this, we support the development of long-duration energy storage to enable deeper decarbonisation.

Key Markets & Focus

We are focusing first on the markets where impact can happen fastest and scale furthest.

Philippines

‍With its strong solar and wind ambitions and island-based grid challenges, the Philippines offers a perfect environment to demonstrate how energy storage can deliver stability and unlock more renewables.

Vietnam

‍One of the fastest-growing renewable markets in ASEAN, Vietnam is already seeing the need for flexible solutions to manage its surging solar capacity and ensure reliable power for its dynamic economy.

Focus areas

‍Across these and other ASEAN markets, our work centres on:

  • Accelerating battery energy storage systems (BESS) deployment to provide immediate grid flexibility and reliability
  • Preparing the ground for long-duration energy storage (LDES) to support deeper renewable integration beyond 2030
  • Promoting sector coupling between electricity, heat, transport, and industry to maximise renewable energy use
  • Developing flexibility markets and digital solutions that optimise the entire energy system for efficiency and resilience

We are expanding step by step into Thailand, Malaysia, and beyond, always adapting our approach to each country’s unique needs and opportunities.

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We Are Bridging Policy, Industry and Society

FESSIA began as the vision of Liming Qiao, our CEO and Co-founder. After more than two decades shaping Asia’s clean energy landscape — including building GWEC Asia and developing the influential “Route-to-Market” framework — Liming received the 2025 Climate Breakthrough Award.

This recognition and support gave her the opportunity to launch something new: a dedicated multi-stakeholder alliance focused on the next critical piece of the energy transition — energy storage and grid flexibility. With co-founder Matt Stubberfield and a growing team of experts, FESSIA officially took shape in 2025 as a bridge between policy, industry, and society to drive real progress in ASEAN.

Our Values

The core of our organisation is our values for change.

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Resilience

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Agility

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Courageous

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Data-driven

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Curiousity

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Collaboration

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Integrity

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Our Values

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Collaboration

We succeed when diverse voices work together as equal partners.

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Inclusivity

Every stakeholder matters, from large utilities to local civil society groups and emerging leaders.

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Optimism With Realism

We face challenges honestly but always focus on practical solutions and shared wins.

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Resilience

We believe energy systems — and the people building them — can adapt and grow stronger.

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Action-oriented

Ideas matter most when they lead to tangible deployment, better policies, and cleaner grids on the ground.

Join the Team That Creates the Future

We’re building something meaningful and growing fast. If you’re passionate about energy storage, grid integration, and a just clean energy future for ASEAN, we’d love to hear from you. Explore current opportunities and become part of a team that believes collaboration and optimism can drive real change.

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Our Partners

FESSIA collaborates with leading organizations including REN21, Global Solar Council, Long Duration Energy Storage Council, and national alliances across the region.