Sector Desk · Storage

Storage

Standalone and hybrid battery storage — from gigascale round-the-clock systems to grid-services fleets — and the revenue models making them bankable.

Middle EastSolar + StorageFinancing

Masdar closes $6.1bn for world-first gigascale round-the-clock solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi

5.2 GW PV + 19 GWh BESS, 13-bank debt facility, BYD and Sungrow battery supply — the deal being read as proof that 24/7 renewable power is now bankable at gigascale.

OceaniaProcurement

Australia picks 4.2GW/16.1GWh of batteries in one tender — here is who will build and own them

The full developer table behind CIS Tender 8, and why the winner is not always the owner.

Europe

Negative prices push Europe's solar fleet into storage: the financing wave in Spain, Italy and beyond

Spain's first standalone BESS financing, Italy's 10GWh auction and the zero-capex model.

North America

The ERCOT template: how contracted revenue is making US storage a repeatable finance product

$130m tax equity, $1.4bn portfolio closings — and the contrast with sovereign-PPA markets.

China Supply Chain

Chinese EPCs and battery makers cement lead in MENA's storage build-out

From Noor Midelt to Nefertiti: the contracts and factories barely covered in English-language media.

North AfricaFinancing

Egypt's sovereign-backed hybrid solar-storage structure becomes MENA's bankability template

Inside the $479m Obelisk blended-debt structure now being copied in Jordan.

Southeast Asia

Philippines inaugurates Phase I of MTerra Solar, world's largest integrated solar-plus-storage project

1,373 MW and 3.3 GWh already feeding the Luzon grid.

North AfricaCorporate PPA

AfDB backs Egypt's largest private corporate PPA: 500MW Dandara solar-plus-storage to power aluminium producer

Industrial decarbonisation meets the CBAM era.

Central Africa

Qair reaches first disbursement on €37.9m financing for Chad's first utility-scale hybrid solar plants

A frontier-market deal the global trade press missed.

Middle EastTender

Saudi Arabia shortlists 27 consortia for second 3 GW/12 GWh storage tender

Six 500 MW/2,000 MWh independent storage projects under a BOO template — with Gotion and Tesla qualifying as technical members.

China Supply ChainAnalysis

From shipping boxes to building plants: China's storage supply chain puts down roots in the Gulf

Hithium's 4 GWh SEC order, CATL's Riyadh service network and Sungrow's Suez factory mark the shift to local manufacturing.

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