The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) secured two major battery energy storage projects in the northern region of the country with a combined capacity of 4.9 GWh. The projects’ installation costs will range between $73/kWh and $75/kWh. The contracts were awarded to a China-based manufacturer, HiTHIUM, and a Saudi Arabia-based engineering, procurement, and construction contractor, Alfanar Projects. The project sites, spread across the Tabuk and Hail provinces, will comprise a 500 MW, four-hour system, with a 2.45 GWh storage system for each project. The storage systems will include a five-year degradation buffer. Contracts for equipment supply will be worth $179 million for the Tabuk project and $183 million for the project in Hail. Engineering and construction costs are expected to reach $116 million and $118 million, respectively.

Oman-based consultancy firm Five Elements Environmental Services announced a strategic collaboration with Netherlands-headquartered Pondera Consult for supporting investors in Oman’s renewable energy and green hydrogen projects. The collaboration aims to offer advanced technical, engineering, environmental, social, and climate risk assessments for Oman’s projects.

The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources announced the timelines for its planned 2 GW renewable energy tender. Bids for 850 MW of solar capacity will be accepted on November 4, 2025, and for 1.15 GW of wind capacity on November 18, 2025. Of the total 16 planned projects across the two technologies, 10 will focus on solar energy, and the remaining six on wind energy. The solar projects will be divided into capacities of 100 MW, 150 MW, 85 MW in Erzurum, 40 MW each in Van, Mardin, and Kahramanmaraş, 50 MW each in Elazığ and Bolu, 260 MW in Eskisehir, and a 35 MW floating project in Demirköprü. The largest wind project will be an onshore system in Sivas with a planned capacity of 500 MW. The winning solar projects would be able to sell the generated electricity on the free market for 60 months. Selected wind projects would be able to do so for 72 months. Projects would enter a 20-year power purchase agreement with the government post the tender.