UAE firm Amea Power has inked a deal with China’s Trinasolar for the supply of 300MWh of battery energy storage (BESS) via sixty 5MWh units for Amea’s 500MW Abydos solar PV project near Aswan in southern Egypt which entered service in October (MEES, 25 October). Amea in September announced plans to add 300MWh of BESS, Egypt’s first such capacity, at the Abydos site, as well as a further 600MWh alongside 1GW of planned solar capacity at nearby Benban (MEES, 20 September 2024).