By ESS news
The MENA region is beginning to witness a dramatic increase in large-scale battery energy storage system (“BESS”) projects, accompanied by rising renewable energy penetration. This happened at a pace that seems to have surprised many market analysts.
In the past, forecasts for the MENA region showed a few GWh at best for the coming years. Typically, the region was not even split into individual countries, but combined into a broad ‘other’ bucket.
However, if you add up the figures for Saudi Arabia (KSA) alone, we arrive at 13 GWh of grid-scale BESS already operational or under construction today. And if we add recent tenders, this will lead to as much as 33.5 GWh of BESS capacity by 2026. This would make KSA the third largest global BESS market, after the US and China.
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