The solar and storage project is being developed and led by France-headquartered utility and independent power producer (IPP) EDF Group and UAE state-owned renewable IPP Masdar for customer Red Sea Global.

The project will also feature a 10MW ‘demonstration platform’ which will leverage advanced simulation models such as Hil semi-physical simulation, DigSilent, and PSCAD to ensure system reliability in different scenarios.

Red Sea Global is a Saudi state-owned real estate developer responsible for several huge flagship infrastructure projects, including AMAALA, as the country tries to diversify away from a fossil fuel economy. The AMAALA tourism project is set to be completed in 2027 and Sungrow’s project would presumably need to be online by then.

In December 2022, Sungrow entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with local IPP ACWA Power for a 536MW/600MWh BESS at one of Red Sea Global’s other huge projects, Neom, in 2022, with a firm contract signed nine months later.

Neom is a linear urban development intended to cut through miles of desert all the way to the sea, but was recently scaled back from 170km to just 2.4km.

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