The sudden exit of NEC from the Battery Energy Storage (BES) market was caused indirectly by Donald Trump’s pressure to disenfranchise Huawei in the west. NEC HQ realized that it while it may have fumbled the ball on 4G, it could re-build a key relationship with NTT DoCoMo back home, and become a force in 5G. but to do that it needed to get out of anything that was burning through cash. We spokes this week to Hiro Ezawa, General Manager of NEC Energy Solutions and he made it clear that the two events were directly related. “There was a decision in our parent company to focus more on software and the telecommunications market now there was an opportunity in…