The World's Largest Solar + Storage Project Will Deliver Power 24/7

[Think. Again.]

Michelle Lewis, Jan 23 2025 - 1:15 pm PT
Source: https://electrek.co/2025/01/23/uae-worlds-largest-solar-storage

The United Arab Emirates is building the world’s largest solar and battery storage project that will dispatch clean energy 24/7. Photo: Masdar

Emirati Renewable energy company Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) and Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) are developing the trailblazing solar and battery storage project. Once it’s online, will become the largest combined solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) in the world.

Located in Abu Dhabi, the project will feature a 5.2 GW solar PV plant coupled with a 19 gigawatt-hour (GWh) BESS.

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Masdar announced China’s JA Solar and Jinko Solar, two of the world’s largest solar panel suppliers, and Chinese battery and BESS giant CATL as preferred suppliers. JA Solar and Jinko Solar will supply 2.6 GW of solar panels each. India’s Larsen & Toubro and POWERCHINA have been selected as preferred engineering, procurement, and construction contractors.

Masdar says the project will create 10,000 jobs and doesn’t yet indicate a projected completion date.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Meanwhile, the US is left hugging the corpse of carbon-based energy.

Even the UAE, which was built on fossil fuels, knows when it is time to give it up.

[Think. Again.]

2. Yep.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. CATL, once embraced by US military, is now blacklisted.

The Pentagon has ordered removal of CATL BESSs (battery electric storage systems) from military bases, only months after they were installed, over concerns about the company's ties to the CCP and the PLA. *Presumably* there are also security issues over computer-controlled, hence hackable, infrastructure, but it's not clear how much that is a part of it.

All this started well before the start of the Turnip maladministration.

[Think. Again.]

4. This installation is going in United Arab Emirates...

...but with trump pulling back all the new energy tech funding, I guess we'll have to rely on foreign built stuff also if we ever decide to do anything.