ACWA Power and Bapco Energies announced a joint development agreement to execute a solar-plus-large-scale battery energy storage (BESS) project in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. The announcement was made during the Saudi-Bahraini Coordination Council meeting recently. The project is expected to generate up to 2.8 GW of energy over multiple phases. All electricity generated will be transmitted to Bahrain’s load center at Bapco Energies.