Renewable power

Saudi renewables project pipeline

Maps where the Saudi renewable build-out stands by region and by stage, starting from about 70 GW of project coverage: the 63.8 GW KAPSARC grid register, 4.49 GW across three dedicated systems, and 2 GW of separately reported ENOWA tenders whose awards remain unverified. In the July 2026 KAPSARC snapshot 17.81 GW of that is classified as installed and the remainder is under development or tendered, so the total spans stages rather than describing operating capacity. Figures are as compiled on 12 September 2026.

Compiled 12 September 2026
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What the report covers

Saudi Arabia's renewable expansion is a geographic story as much as a capacity story.

This map series starts with approximately 70 GW of project coverage. It combines KAPSARC's 63.8 GW grid-project register, 4.49 GW across three dedicated systems, and 2 GW of separately reported ENOWA tenders whose current awards remain unverified.

These projects are at different stages. In KAPSARC's July 2026 snapshot, 17.81 GW is classified as installed; the remaining grid capacity is under development or tendered.

The maps show where installed capacity is concentrated and where development and procurement are expanding.

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What the figures mean

Quoted from the report's own notes on scope and definitions, in the words it published them in.

70 GW renewable project coverage: rounded from 63.813 GW in the grid-project register + 4.49 GW across NGHC, The Red Sea and AMAALA + 2 GW of separately reported ENOWA tenders. This combines different project stages and source AC/DC conventions; it is not operating capacity or a new official national total. The two ENOWA reports date to July 2024; current awards and final grid interfaces are unverified.
44.3 GWh battery projects: 18 GWh energized grid capacity + 4 GWh of further Saudi Energy awarded projects + 8 GWh under SPPC Group 1 agreements + 12 GWh of Group 2 procurement + 2.327 GWh in dedicated systems = 44.327 GWh. It is not an all-operating fleet total. Power in GW and energy in GWh are separate quantities.
Dedicated battery ratings: Red Sea 1.227 GWh + AMAALA 0.700 GWh + NGHC 0.400 GWh. EDF's 0.770 GWh AMAALA figure and Sungrow's 0.600 GWh DC NGHC quantity have different reporting bases and are not additional projects.
LCOE map coverage: all 41 registered solar projects (51.613 GW) and 12 wind projects (12.200 GW) are represented. Hollow markers show 10 solar and five wind projects without published prices. This is the full grid-project register; dedicated off-grid projects are covered in the separate dedicated-systems PDF.
Renewable price averages: sum of project capacity multiplied by its reported price, divided by total priced capacity. Solar: 31 priced projects, 36.513 GW, approximately 1.47 US cents/kWh. Wind: seven priced projects, 6.700 GW, approximately 1.77 US cents/kWh. Unpriced projects are excluded from the averages but remain on the maps. These are capacity-weighted means, not medians or generation-weighted averages; reported contract vintages are retained.
Battery costs: the approximately USD 120/kWh and USD 123/kWh Tabuk and Hail figures are capital-cost comparisons using the cited procurement energy basis. The 6.5 US cents/kWh storage benchmark is an Ember modeled LCOS excluding charging energy, not a Saudi auction discharge tariff.
Locations: points are project or named-area proxies where surveyed plant coordinates are unavailable. The ENOWA tender locations are indicative named areas. They do not establish final engineering footprints.

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Figures are as filed on 12 September 2026; live dashboards may differ.