Qatar is getting a new solar plant: China’s Sungrow signed an agreement with Samsung C&T to supply Qatar’s Al Kharsaah 800 MW solar PV project with inverter solutions, according to a statement. The new facility — poised to be Qatar’s largest solar facility — will be completed by next year. No financial details have been disclosed.

The details: The new project will generate 1.8k GWh of clean electricity and cut 900k tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

The new project will be Qatar’s second solar plant: The power plant, which came online last October, is the largest in the peninsula so far. Built at a cost of c. USD 470 mn, the facility delivers about 10% of the country’s peak electricity demand.

Sungrow is expanding in the region: The solar inverter company has projects in 150 countries across the globe, its website states. The firm provides battery storage for KarmSolar’s solar microgrid for a poultry farm in Egypt’s Western Desert as well as solar plants yielding 35 MW in Sharm El Sheikh. Sungrow inked an agreement with KSA’s Acwa Power to build a 536 MW battery storage system in Neom.

IN OTHER SOLAR NEWS- PIF signs agreement with LONGi to manufacture solar PV products: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund the Public Investment Fund (PIF) has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Chinese solar PV manufacturer LONGi Green Energy Technology, it announced in a tweet last week. The JDA covers the local manufacture of solar PV products in Saudi Arabia, the tweet notes, but no timeline or financial details have been disclosed.