ACWA Power said construction has started on three wind plants totalling 1.5 GW in Kungrad district, Karakalpakstan, a USD 3.06 billion programme. The package includes a 300 MW battery system, about 1,500 km of high-voltage transmission line, three new 500 kV switching substations and two upgraded ones.
ACWA guides commissioning in Q1 2027. UzDaily reports that ACWA’s Karakalpakstan projects as a whole are expected to generate about 8.77 billion kWh a year. President Mirziyoyev launched construction on 18 September, according to UzDaily. Together with the 300 MW Nukus 1 and 2 plants, ACWA’s Karakalpakstan wind fleet would reach about 2.3 GW.
Why it matters
Wind at this scale now arrives as a bundle of turbines, batteries and transmission. We read the grid scope as the part that sets the schedule.
What it means for MENA
We read this as Saudi capital exporting a full delivery model. In our view it becomes a yardstick for wind-plus-grid packages across MENA.
