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Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project will be powered by clean energy, as the Kingdom is building a 400MW solar microgrid with 1.3GWh of storage capacity. The solar and BESS site is expected to be the world’s largest solar storage microgrid project and will utilise Huawei’s FusionSolar Smart String ESS technology. Red Sea Global, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will be responsible for building the site in a 28,000sqkm area of the Talbuk province. ACWA Power, a developer based in Riyadh, will lead the construction, engineering, and maintenance of the plant. The Saudi Vision 2030 initiative includes several Red Sea Global projects in its timeline, including the company’s solar and BESS project. Red Sea City, included in Red Sea Global’s projects, expects to build 50 hotels with 8,000 rooms and 1,000 homes across the 22-island archipelago to house 1m annual visitors. These buildings and their amenities will be powered by off-grid renewable energy, from sources such as Red Sea Global’s solar BESS plant. |
