The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has invited international developers to submit expressions of interest for a tender to develop the 1.6-gigawatt seventh phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This phase, which is expandable to 2 gigawatts, will use photovoltaic solar panels and a battery energy storage system with a capacity of 1 gigawatt for six hours, providing a total storage capacity of 6,000 megawatt-hours. This will make it one of the world’s largest solar-plus-storage projects. The phase will be implemented under the independent power producer (IPP) model.
The seventh phase is expected to produce 4.5 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, avoiding the burning of more than 36 billion cubic feet of natural gas. It will increase the solar park's planned production capacity from 5,000 megawatts to 7,260 megawatts, raising the share of clean energy in Dubai’s energy mix from 27 percent to 34 perc
