Energy infrastructure under construction for KSA’s Red Sea Project: Red Sea Global, a global multi-project developer fully owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund the Public Investment Fund, has installed 750k solar panels and five solar stations for the first phase of the kingdom’s luxury Red Sea Project (RSP), SPA reported on Friday.

What we know: ILF Consulting Engineers was tapped as an independent engineer for the construction of RSP’s USD 1.5 bn net-carbon multi-utility system last April, is set to power 16 hotels, retail and entertainment venues with renewable energy.

The details: The renewable energy for the project will be generated through a 340 MW solar plant, a 1.2 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) facility and an internal combustion engine with a capacity of 108.98 MW capacity. Potable water will be delivered using a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant, with district cooling made possible with a capacity of 32.5k refrigeration tons.

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