Among other renewable resources and associated power to gas technologies, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be powered by the largest PV plant concepted worldwide, of approximately 26GWp located in undisclosed desert areas. This goal shows the ambition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reduce its future fossil fuel footprint via this milestone project, proving yet again that renewables are a cheaper and more sustainable option, even in an oil-producing country.

Asunim´s long standing track record of its specialised engineering department, numerous internationally awarded projects, wide practical experience, and high simulation computing power workstations allowed it to be contracted on this very important project.

In the greater MENA region, numerous projects were already designed and implemented by Asunim. Among others, for customers such as Orascom (only design work for Algeria 360 MWp), 20MWp/30MWh for Elswedy in South Sudan and Egypt, where Asunim was recently contracted by Siemens for the full EPC of their 2MW facility rooftop (Siemens facility in Ain Sokhan Egypt) and numerous micro grid irrigation projects in the southern desert for (Dakhla Micro grid project for powering 600 Ha), IFFCO the food industry giant, for their factory rooftop in Suez Egypt and in Oman in partnership with Solar Wadi, to develop 3 distributed PV systems around major malls and administrate buildings in Muscat. These references speak for the stronger presence of Asunim in the region.

The current scope of work for this gigawatt System includes the preliminary layout and design, site assessment, 3D topographic modelling, pull out tests, LCOE studies with technical specifications of the products and suppliers to be used, determined by Asunim together with the project partners.