Nextpower Arabia launches to fast-track utility-scale solar rollout

Nextpower Arabia, a associated task (JV) betwixt Abunayyan and Nextpower (formerly known arsenic Nextracker), has been officially incorporated to expedite the deployment of utility-scale star powerfulness plants crossed the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Based successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the JV aims to enactment determination renewable vigor goals, including the country’s Vision 2030 initiative, by diversifying the system and enhancing section concern capacity.

The collaboration follows an statement signed successful October 2025 betwixt Abunayyan and Nextracker.

This concern leverages Abunayyan’s acquisition successful h2o and vigor infrastructure wrong Saudi Arabia and the MENA portion alongside Nextpower’s expertise successful star tracking systems and technologies.

Abunayyan president Khalid Abunayyan said: “Making vigor and h2o proviso readily accessible, sustainable and affordable is indispensable to the continued economical and societal improvement of Saudi Arabia and our partners crossed the region. It is besides cardinal to the halfway values and DNA of Abunayyan Holding.

“Partnering with Nextpower, a existent pioneer successful the planetary star vigor community, strengthens our relation successful advancing Saudi’s cleanable vigor imaginativeness by localising precocious manufacturing and technologies, gathering section capableness improvement and creating lasting worth for generations to come.”

A caller manufacturing installation successful Jeddah forms portion of this venture, producing precocious star tracker systems to beryllium implemented successful large-scale projects passim the MENA region.

The facility, occupying 42,000m², is expected to unfastened successful the 2nd 4th of 2026 and aims to execute an yearly accumulation capableness of up to 12GW.

This improvement is projected to make up to 2,000 jobs and foster section engineering endowment arsenic portion of broader efforts to enactment Saudi Arabia's industrialisation plans.

Abunayyan CEO and Nextpower Arabia president and CEO Turki Al-Amri said: “Our manufacturing installation represents the archetypal measurement successful our strategical imaginativeness to fortify and localise the star proviso concatenation for our partners crossed the MENA portion and heighten collaboration to present highly businesslike and cost-effective cleanable energy.

“By sourcing halfway materials specified arsenic Saudi-produced alloy done our strategical partners and manufacturing locally, we are supporting economical diversification and concern maturation that is astatine the instauration of Saudi Vision 2030.”

Nextpower's way grounds includes much than 150GW of star trackers installed globally, with important projects crossed the Middle East and Africa specified arsenic Phase V of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park successful the United Arab Emirates.