BYD secured an 11.275 gigawatt-hour energy storage contract with Masdar for Abu Dhabi's round-the-clock renewable energy project, the company said Thursday.
The Abu Dhabi facility will deploy 11.275 GWh of BYD's Haohan energy storage system at a single site, the company said.
The agreement follows BYD's 12.5 GWh grid-scale energy storage project in Saudi Arabia.
Masdar and Emirates Water and Electricity Company are jointly developing the project, which combines a 5.2 GW solar photovoltaic plant with a 19 GWh battery energy storage system, BYD said.
BYD said the project will become the world's first gigascale renewable energy facility capable of delivering round-the-clock power while setting a new benchmark for integrating solar generation with battery storage.
BYD said its Haohan system uses a 2,710 ampere-hour Blade Battery that increases single-cell capacity by more than 300% while reducing battery management system complexity by 70% to 80%.
The company said those improvements double overall system reliability and support an uninterrupted 24/7 renewable power supply.
BYD said its self-developed GC Master energy management system can process data from tens of millions of measurement points, delivers 25% greater processing capability than comparable systems and offers more than 400% higher computing power.
The GC Master system can manage energy storage stations with capacities of up to 15 GWh while providing real-time monitoring, equipment dispatching, safety alerts and health diagnostics, the company said.