Battery storage
Saudi battery storage
Covers the Saudi battery fleet and the projects behind it: what is energised, what is awarded, what sits in the two Principal Buyer procurement groups, and the dedicated systems at The Red Sea, AMAALA and NEOM Green Hydrogen. The combined project ledger is 44.3 GWh — 42 GWh of grid projects, of which 18 GWh was energised by the end of June 2026, plus about 2.3 GWh of dedicated systems — which the report states spans different delivery stages and is not an operating-fleet total. It also keeps battery capital cost apart from the cost of discharged energy. Figures are as compiled on 12 September 2026.
- Compiled 12 September 2026
- 6 pages
What the report covers
Saudi Arabia's battery story now spans operating assets, signed agreements and a growing procurement pipeline.
Saudi Energy reported 18 GWh energized by the end of June 2026. The grid-project ledger adds 4 GWh of further awarded projects, 8 GWh under SPPC's first-group agreements and 12 GWh in second-group procurement.
Together, these represent 42 GWh of grid projects. Dedicated systems at The Red Sea, AMAALA and NEOM Green Hydrogen add approximately 2.3 GWh, bringing the combined project ledger to 44.3 GWh. The total includes different delivery stages; it is not an operating-fleet total.
This carousel maps the fleet, identifies the procurement groups and separates battery capital costs from the cost of discharged energy.
For the next wave, project value will depend on location, duration, operating constraints and the service being procured.
Which of those will matter most as the fleet grows?
Source/system ratings are retained. The dedicated total uses AMAALA's 700 MWh basis; the alternative 770 MWh report describes the same asset.
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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