ACWA Power is a Saudi Arabian firm that makes electricity and desalination. It aims to do a lot more business in China so it can take advantage of the country’s vast market for renewable energy projects.
At the Summer Davos conference in Tianjin, Mohammad A. Abunayyan, the founder and chairman of ACWA Power, stated that China is a “strategically vital” market, second only to Saudi Arabia, and a fantastic opportunity for the business to learn more about green energy.
Abunayyan also indicated that ACWA Power aspires to own $250 billion worth of things throughout the globe by 2030. People think that China will obtain between $30 billion and $75 billion of the money. This year,en to China’s clean energy industry by securing contracts for more than 1 GW of renewable energy projects in various parts of the country.
Abunayyan said that ACWA Power is sure that China’s market will develop in the long run since its energy demands are rising, its middle class is growing, and it is a pioneer in technologies like AI.
ACWA Power is the largest firm in the world that gets salt out of water. In China, it aims to concentrate on solar, wind, green hydrogen, and getting rid of salt from water. The goal is to relocate the supply chain for desalination to China so that it may be utilised for projects in China and other countries.
Earlier this year, ACWA Power cooperated with two large Chinese firms that create renewable energy projects, Sungrow and Mingyang Smart Energy, to establish solar and wind projects together. This was part of China’s big initiatives to cut down on carbon pollution.
The company is also looking at offshore wind energy and wants to do more research and development in China to come up with new ideas for renewable energy projects.
Abunayyan said he was totally sure about where China’s economy and policies were going, even if the world is complex and there are threats to the supply chain and geopolitical challenges. He said that the Chinese government has recently taken moves to make it simpler for firms to invest, and he also said that the company is still working with both state-owned and private Chinese enterprises.