The roughly AED232 billion (US$5. 2GW of solar PV with a 19GWh battery energy storage system (BESS), which Masdar claimed was the “largest and most technologically advanced system of its kind in the world. The Emirati state-owned renewables developer Masdar has begun construction on a giant solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi. This “giga-project,” developed by Masdar in. Masdar, in partnership with EWEC, is reimagining the potential of renewable energy, producing gigascale baseload power at a globally competitive tariff for the first time. 2 gigawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility with a 19 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery energy storage system, the. Global energy storage capacity was estimated to have reached 36,735MW by the end of 2022 and is forecasted to grow to 353,880MW by 2030. The UAE Energy Strategy 2050 - (PDF, 67. 9 MB) was launched in 2017 as the.