July 3, 2026
EDF’s headquarters in Paris. The company is among the power firms and IPPs to have been qualified for the BESS tender. Image: Olivier Durand / Flickr.
The state-owned Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has revealed the qualified bidders for its second build-own-operate (BOO) BESS tender, totalling 3GW/12GWh of capacity across six projects.
The shortlist released this week (30 June) contains a mix of domestic and international companies, including investors, EPCs and BESS suppliers, which you can see in full in this PDF.
They include regional state-owned IPPs ACWA Power (Saudi) and Masdar (UAE), France-headquartered firms EDF and TotalEnergies, Japanese conglomerate Marubeni as well as numerous Chinese companies. BESS suppliers in the list are Envision Energy, Tesla and Gotion.
