Southeast Asia climate fellowship renewed for 2028–2030 cohorts
Olam Agri, Pertamina NRE and PTT’s ExpresSo NB join the programme, adding industrial expertise and opportunities to test climate technologies.
Breakthrough Energy, Temasek and Enterprise Singapore have renewed the Southeast Asia hub of Breakthrough Energy Fellows, a programme supporting early-stage climate technologies, for three cohorts from 2028 to 2030. Their 28 October announcement also adds Olam Agri, Pertamina New & Renewable Energy and PTT’s venture arm ExpresSo NB as corporate partners.
The partners will give Fellows access to industry expertise and opportunities to test and deploy technologies across Southeast Asia. For an innovator developing a process or material, an industrial partner can help establish how it works under operating conditions beyond the laboratory.
Participating Fellows may receive up to US$500,000 alongside technical and commercial support and access to the partners’ networks. The partners say the hub has funded 12 companies from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand since its launch in 2024. The new relationships create potential pilot routes; a pilot or commercial contract is not guaranteed for each participant.
The renewal and the current application portal operate on different timetables. The official Fellows portal accepts Innovator concept papers until 2 November 2026 for Cohort 7, starting in September 2027. It lists Business Fellows and Explorers on a rolling basis. That deadline is not an announced application date for the renewed 2028–2030 Southeast Asia cohorts.
