According to Chuneng.BJX, on January 14, at the opening of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Summit 2025, the United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology announced that Masdar, the UAE's state-owned renewable energy investment company, is partnering with EWEC, the UAE's water and electricity utility, to build a huge photovoltaic storage facility, with a total investment of $6 billion. The project will combine 5.2GW of photovoltaic and 19GWh of storage plants to produce 1GW of continuous baseload renewable energy.
Located in the Abu Dhabi Desert, the project is said to cover an area of 90 square kilometers. Masdar's chief operating officer said the project is underway and is expected to be operational by 2027.
Masdar COO said that battery energy storage technology has made tremendous progress. Globally, user-side and commercial and industrial energy storage is booming, while Masdar has developed new battery energy storage projects in the UK, US, Uzbekistan, and Masdar.
According to EWEC, the photovoltaic storage projects will compensate for the fact that photovoltaic power does not provide a constant and stable supply of electricity. EWEC has noted that the supply chain for the development of solar and storage projects has changed favorably and will enable faster deployment.
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