• Strategic collaboration to jointly pursue battery energy storage solutions opportunities in Australia
• Combines Hitachi Energy's global power conversion and grid integration technology with Synertec's Powerhouse platform
• Targets energy, data centre, mining and critical infrastructure sectors

Synertec Corporation Limited (ASX: SOP, 'Synertec' or 'the Company') has executed a Memorandum of Understanding ('MoU') with Hitachi Energy to establish a strategic collaboration for the development and delivery of battery energy storage systems (BESS) and microgrid solutions across Australia. The MOU provides a framework for the parties to jointly pursue, secure and deliver energy storage and hybrid power projects, combining Hitachi Energy's global technology capability with Synertec's Australian engineering-led power systems technology integration platform, Powerhouse. The collaboration aims to target projects in the 5MW to 30MW range, with the ability to scale to larger opportunities, across the energy, data centre, mining and critical infrastructure sectors. Under the MOU, Synertec and Hitachi Energy will collaborate on joint identification and development of BESS opportunities, incorporation of power conversion technologies, coordinated bid strategy, technical solution development and commercial structuring, grid-connected and islanded microgrid applications, lifecycle support, optimisation and ongoing services, and development of scalable reference designs. The MOU reinforces Synertec's strategy to scale its Powerhouse technology platform, positioning the Company to deliver integrated, bankable and performance-backed energy solutions, expand into larger and more complex projects, apply power conversion solutions designed for consistent lifetime performance in BESS applications, leverage global OEM technology partnerships while maintaining flexibility across suppliers, and capture growth in both traditional energy markets and emerging data centre demand.

The collaboration is intended to strengthen the parties' ability to deliver integrated, low-risk and performance-backed solutions, particularly in response to the growing demand for high-performance BESS solutions and resilient power architectures across the energy industry and the rapidly expanding data centre sector.