Kenyir project to house South-east Asia's largest battery, at 1,190 MWh

A consortium of Cypark Renewable Energy and Fabulous Sunview has won a RM1.96 billion contract to build the Kenyir hybrid project in Terengganu, which will pair a 785 MWp floating solar farm with a 297.5 MW / 1,190 MWh battery energy storage system. The battery is billed as the largest in South-east Asia.

The project is owned by TNB Power Generation and Terengganu Inc on a 70:30 basis, with Cypark holding 60% of the construction consortium and Fabulous Sunview 40%. Engineering and construction began on 2 June 2026, with completion targeted for 29 September 2028. The output is contracted to a data-centre offtaker under a long take-or-pay arrangement.

Kenyir shows how large the storage attached to a single project can now be. At nearly 1.2 GWh, the battery dwarfs the 400 MWh systems that defined Malaysia's first grid scale projects, and it is designed to firm a very large block of solar so the grid can absorb it.

The contract also signals that pairing utility scale solar with heavy storage is becoming the norm for Malaysia's biggest renewable projects, and that the country's storage capacity is set to climb steeply as anchor projects like this come online.