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The plant can deliver up to four hours of continuous output at full capacity, enough to cover the peak-period electricity needs of around 100,000 Saudi households, and represents foreign direct investment of approximately USD 220 million. It is ENGIE's largest battery storage project worldwide to date and will use modular, containerised lithium iron phosphate batteries with integrated fire protection, monitored around the clock over a 15-year operational life. It is built under a build-own-operate model supervised by the Ministry of Energy, on 0.5 square kilometres inside the Khushaybi solar park. Al Khushaybi is one of four projects in the Kingdom's first group of battery storage projects, with a combined 2,000 MW for four hours and investment above SAR 4.35 billion, supporting a generation mix of around 50% renewables by 2030 (ENGIE; Principal Buyer via SPA, 20 August 2026; POWERCHINA via TradeArabia, 14 October 2026).