Port of Yanbu
Kent wins contract to engineer Saudi Yanbu project
Project developer ACWA Power hails 4GW project as ‘monumental’ step towards Saudi green hydrogen ambitions
Saudi renewables developer ACWA Power has appointed energy services company Kent as owner’s engineer for the Yanbu Green Hydrogen Hub, marking an important step forward for the Kingdom’s largest electrolysis project. ACWA is developing the project together with German energy firm EnBW at the port city of Yanbu on the Red Sea. At full scale, it is expected to deploy more than 4GW of electrolysers, making it nearly twice the size of the existing Saudi Neom project. Yanbu’s first phase is scheduled to start commercial operations in 2030, with production at full scale expected to be up to 400,000t/yr of green hydrogen. This will be converted into more than 2.2mt/yr of green ammonia for internati
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