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World's largest solar-storage microgrid goes online in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia's Red Sea multi-utility project has reached full commercial operation with a 358 MWac solar plant and 1.2 GWh battery energy storage system, supplying tourism facilities, desalination, cooling, water treatment and other infrastructure in an isolated utility network.

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Great news, but #ironic.

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