Oman Power and Water Procurement has shortlisted preferred bidders for a 500 MW solar tender to be developed at Ibri, Ad Dhairah governorate. Three Gorges Energy has invested $11 billion into a desert hybrid green energy megaproject comprising 8 GW solar PV, 4 GW wind, 200 MW concentrated solar power, 4 GW coal, and 5 GW battery energy storage. This will use the Mengxi-Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei ±800 kV UHVDC transmission line, with the coal and transmission infrastructure to be online by June 2027, with the construction of intermittent sources kept in line with that schedule. An EPC contract for the 850 MW Jiangsu Guoxin Dafeng offshore wind project in China has come in at $300 million, excluding the supply of the turbines…