Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-based clean energy giant, has commenced construction on a 5.2 gigawatt solar and 19 gigawatt-hour battery storage complex — one of the most ambitious round-the-clock renewable energy projects ever undertaken anywhere in the world.
The project sets a new global standard for what clean baseload power looks like: solar energy produced during the day, stored at scale, and released on demand around the clock — no fossil fuels, no emissions, no interruption. Completion is targeted for 2027.
Alongside this, Abu Dhabi’s 1,000MW battery energy storage system (BESS) is already underway, with the UAE targeting 30% of all renewable energy to be paired with storage infrastructure by 2030.
These are landmark-scale projects — but the principle behind them is exactly the same as what Ultra Energy installs for individual properties. The GH2S system stores energy produced by renewables and releases it on demand. The difference is scale: Masdar is solving the problem for a city; Ultra Energy solves it for a farm, a villa, or a remote property.
The message from this investment is clear: energy storage is not the future. It is being built right now.
