UAE to build world’s biggest BESS
Every few months at the moment we seem to hear about a new “world’s biggest BESS project”. But we can’t help but think that Abu Dhabi’s state-controlled Masdar might have taken the crown for some time to come. It is planning a 5.2GW solar plant linked to 19GWh of storage capacity. The US$6bn project will be based in the dessert outside Abu Dhabi and has lofty ambitions. Masdar Chairman Sultan Al Jaber expects the facility to “transform renewable energy into baseload energy…a first step which could become a giant leap”. If solar+storage could become baseload anywhere in the world, it...
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