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I wonder if they will they be storing energy over night, or do they plan on using daytime generation to run energy intensive industrial plants such as aluminum smelters or fertiliser plants. Saudi is a major fertiliser manufacturer but fertiliser production consumes less than 2% of global energy production and this plant will produce far more power than that.

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Saudi residential and commercial electricity use is dominated by air conditioning loads. That means really good correlation between solar pv output and load curves.

You can also time-shift cooling, especially if you use central chillers which distribute cold brine to heat exchanges in builders. Parts of Dubai use a system like that.

If they are thinking about starting to producing syngas they definitely have infrastructure place already.

That's what I was thinking also. Yes, desalination, but you can't sell your excess water for too much and how much can they possibly need?

I'd be very curious to see the math on this one, for desalination and gas processing.

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