The total investment is nearly 42.7 billion, 5.2G W photovoltaic! The world's largest optical storage project started

A groundbreaking ceremony for the world's largest integrated solar energy and energy storage project was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the presence of UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,

local media reported on October 24. The project will be able to provide 1GW of continuous baseload power, making it the world's first gigabit all-weather renewable energy project .

The project is jointly developed by Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (PJSC-Masdar) and the United Arab Emirates Hydropower Company (EWEC), with a total investment of more than 6 billion US dollars (about 42.7 billion RMB). It consists of a 5.2G W solar photovoltaic power plant and a 19 GWh battery energy storage system , aiming to provide 1G W continuous power output, which is one of the largest renewable energy investments to date.

The scale of the project extends beyond the traditional solar + storage portfolio to baseload areas traditionally occupied by fossil fuel or nuclear assets. It will deploy advanced grid formation, black start and virtual power plant technologies, marking a shift from intermittent renewable energy to dispatchable clean energy.

By combining the largest photovoltaic with the largest single battery energy storage, the project directly solves the "intermittent" problem of renewable energy, making solar energy participate in the electricity market as a "dispatchable base load" for the first time, and providing a new benchmark for investors to reassess the risk of fossil energy transformation.

The project is expected to be operational by 2027, creating more than 10,000 jobs, stimulating the establishment of new manufacturing facilities, and offsetting about 5.7 million tons of carbon emissions annually, equivalent to removing about 1.2 million fuel vehicles from the road. There are many Chinese enterprises behind

the project. It is reported that Ningde Times is the supplier of battery energy storage system (BESS) for the project. Chinese photovoltaic enterprises such as Jingke Energy and Jingao Solar Energy provide TOPCon photovoltaic modules for the project. In addition, as one of the important participants, China Electric Power Construction has undertaken the construction tasks of the northern block of the project, including 2.1G W photovoltaic and 7.6G Wh energy storage projects, accounting for nearly half of the total project scale. 。

Masdar operates and develops a number of projects in several countries, including the world's first energy storage system for floating offshore wind farms. The company is targeting a portfolio of projects in the clean energy technology sector with a total capacity of 100GW by 2030.