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Storage and Grids in Jordan

The network that stores the sun and trades power across borders.

$1.4bn: forward investment in its own projects
25: projects in this guide
6: in or linked to Aqaba

The sector today

Storage and Grids in Jordan

Jordan built a large solar and wind fleet in a decade, and renewables supplied 26.9% of its electricity in 2024. The next challenge is the network itself: storing midday power for the evening, moving it across the country and trading it with neighbours.

The 2025 to 2035 energy strategy adds battery and pumped storage, cuts grid losses to 8% by 2035, brings time-of-use tariffs to every sector from September 2026 and plans for about 500,000 electric vehicles. Officials have set a goal of up to 400 MW of storage before 2030.

The projects are now reaching the market. The 450 MW Al-Mujib pumped-storage plant is in prequalification, a 100 MW battery is being prepared for tender, and links with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are growing. This guide sets out where the sector stands, the projects in the Jordan PPP project register, and how the grid becomes the nervous system of the singularity.

450 MW: Al-Mujib pumped-storage plant, able to deliver full output for seven hours, now in PPP prequalification.
2,000 MW: Capacity Jordan and Egypt agreed in 2025 to reach on their power link, up from about 500 MW today.
400 MW: Energy storage the strategy aims to have in place before 2030, from batteries and pumped hydro.
8%: Electricity losses targeted by 2035 in the approved national energy strategy.

The singularity

The grid is the nervous system of the singularity

The infrastructure singularity is the point where roads, grids, ports and water networks become one connected, intelligent system, built by robotics, run by artificial intelligence and financed by tokenization. The power grid is the first network that has to think, because supply and demand must match every second.

Artificial intelligence: Forecasts demand and renewable output, dispatches storage and reroutes power around faults in real time, so the grid carries more clean power with fewer losses.
Robotics: Drones and robots inspect lines, substations and towers, and maintain remote assets without long outages.
Tokenization: Storage and transmission earn regulated, steady payments. Tokenized stakes let more investors own part of a battery or a link and share its income.
Storage: Batteries and pumped hydro turn sunlight into power on demand, the missing piece of an economy that runs on renewables.
Electrification: Electric vehicles, heat pumps and smart buildings become flexible loads, so every connected device helps balance the system.

Flagship projects

The projects that lead the sector

Tendering · Wadi Al-Mujib
Al Mujib Pumped-Storage Hydropower Dam
A 450 MW, seven-hour closed-loop plant with two reservoirs, estimated at JD 461 million. The Ministry of Investment opened prequalification for a BOOT PPP on October 15, 2026; applications are due January 18, 2027.
Pipeline · Mafraq
Battery Energy Storage System (100 MW / 4-Hour)
About 400 MWh of batteries on a build-own-operate basis, with the EBRD supporting the tender. It is offered at the Jordan-EU Investment Conference on November 19, 2026, alongside the 200 MW Mafraq solar plant.
Pipeline · Gulf of Aqaba
Jordan and Egypt Interconnection Upgrade (2,000 MW)
The 500 MW submarine cable across the Gulf of Aqaba is to be raised to 2,000 MW. Feasibility studies funded by an Arab Fund grant are due to start in November 2026.
Pipeline · Qurayyat to East Amman
Jordan and Saudi Arabia Interconnection
A 164 km link joining Jordan to the Gulf grid, at 500 MW in the first phase rising to 1,000 MW. The interconnection and operating agreements are finalized but not yet signed.
Under way · Eastern Jordan
Jordan and Iraq Interconnection (Phase 2)
The Jordanian side, including the Risha substation and 400 kV line, is complete. About 40 MW flowed to Rutba from March 2024 until the contract ended in September 2026, and NEPCO is negotiating new terms.
Under way · Amman
Amman LED Street Lighting (GAM)
About 125,000 street lights were converted to LED by 2021, repaid from savings. Since February 2026 the city has been installing 32,500 smart LEDs linked to a central control center.

Every project

25 projects in Jordan’s pipeline

Values in US dollars; * estimated where no figure has been published. Rows in grey sit in another sector and connect to this one.

Project	Location	Stage	Value
Al Mujib Pumped-Storage Hydropower Dam	Wadi Al-Mujib	Tendering	$650m
Jordan-Egypt Electricity Interconnection Upgrade (2,000 MW)	Jordan-Egypt cross-border interconnectio	Pipeline	$274m*
Battery Energy Storage System (100 MW / 4-Hour)	Mafraq Governorate	Pipeline	$141m
Jordan-Saudi Arabia Electricity Interconnection	Qurayyat	Pipeline	$100m*
Jordan-Iraq Electricity Interconnection (Phase 2)	East Jordan to Rutba and Al-Qa'im	Under way	$100m
Amman LED Street Lighting (GAM)	Amman	Under way	$50m
New Aqaba 400/132 kV GIS Substation	Aqaba; linked to the BSP1 substation and	Tendering	$45m
Efficient Cooling in Jordanian Schools	Public schools nationwide	Pipeline	$20m*
South Jordan Street Lighting (KbW)	14 villages, southern Jordan	Under way	$9m*
Aqaba-Amman Water Desalination & Conveyance Project (AAWDCP)	Aqaba to Amman	Awarded	$5.8bn
Masdar Green Hydrogen (1 GW Wind + H2)	Jordan	Pipeline	$1.6bn*
Jordan Green Ammonia (JGA)	Aqaba	Awarded	$1bn
Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant (IPP8, 700 MW)	Jordan	Tendering	$700m*
Al Mahatta-Queen Alia Airport Light Rail (LRT)	Amman Governorate: Al Mahatta station	Open opportunity	$300m*
Green Hydrogen Common Use Infrastructure (CUI)	Jordan	Pipeline	$300m*
Solar Energy Projects (200 MW)	Al-Mafraq Governorate	Pipeline	$197m
Wind Power Generation Project (100 MW)	Mafraq Governorate	Pipeline	$141m
Nukheila Dam	Wadi Nukheila	Pipeline	$62m*
Next Generation Data Center	No site chosen; candidate locations are	Pipeline	$60m*
Vanadium Battery Materials Manufacturing Plant	JIEC industrial estate, Jordan	Open opportunity	$29m*
Electric Vehicle Assembly Plant	Designated development zone in Jordan	Open opportunity	$29m*
Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH)	Aqaba	Under way	$28m
Ghabawi Landfill LFG-to-Energy (Cells 4 & 5)	Ghabawi	Under way	$13m
Batteries for Wireless & Electronic Devices	Industrial Gate Free Zone	Pipeline	$10m*
EV Charging Station & Maintenance Center	Balqa	Open opportunity	$10m*

AI, robotics and tokenization

What changes for storage and grids

Artificial intelligence

For storage and grids in Jordan, AI is the operator. It forecasts demand and renewable output, decides when batteries and pumped hydro charge and discharge, and reroutes power around faults. With time-of-use tariffs reaching every sector, AI can also shift demand from cooling, pumping and electric vehicles to the hours when solar is plentiful, cutting losses and peak costs for NEPCO and the distribution companies.

What can be built

Grid twin. A digital model of Jordan's transmission network that tests new plants, storage and interconnections before they are built.
Storage optimizer. Software that schedules batteries and pumped hydro hour by hour to earn the most from each stored kilowatt-hour.
Loss detection. Analytics on smart meter data that find technical losses and theft, supporting the target of 8% losses by 2035.
Demand response. Platforms that pay factories, buildings and charging networks to move their load into the sunny hours.

Robotics

Grids stretch across deserts and borders, and much of their value lies in keeping lines and substations available. Drones and line-crawling robots can inspect transmission corridors such as the routes towards Saudi Arabia and Iraq, robots can patrol substations without outages, and automated lines can assemble battery containers. Fewer people need to work at height or near live equipment, and faults are found earlier.

What can be built

Line inspection. Drones and crawlers that inspect towers, insulators and conductors along long desert transmission routes.
Substation robots. Wheeled robots that patrol substations, read gauges and spot hot joints with thermal cameras.
Battery assembly. Automated lines that build and test battery containers in Jordan's free zones for local and regional projects.
Cable laying. Machines that trench and lay underground and submarine cables, such as new links across the Gulf of Aqaba, with less disruption.

Tokenization

Storage and transmission earn regulated or contracted payments over decades, which suits tokenization. A battery or a pumped-storage plant paid by NEPCO for its capacity, or an interconnection paid through tariffs, can be split into tokenized stakes that pay holders automatically. Smaller efficiency projects, such as street lighting repaid from savings, can be pooled and tokenized so residents and local investors finance the networks of their own cities.

What can be built

Storage stakes. Tokens backed by the capacity payments of a battery or of the Al-Mujib pumped-storage plant.
Efficiency pools. Pools of street lighting and building efficiency contracts, tokenized and repaid from the savings they produce.
Power trade records. A shared ledger that records cross-border power trades with Egypt, Iraq and the Gulf and settles them automatically.
Flexibility credits. Tokens that pay homes, factories and car owners for shifting load or discharging batteries when the grid needs it.

Small PPPs and unsolicited proposals

Small PPPs and research labs

Grid pilots are small, quick and easy to measure, which suits small PPPs. A grid research lab could run three pilots of about $100,000 each: a battery at a distribution substation in Mafraq that absorbs midday solar, a district of smart street lights that also carry air quality and traffic sensors, and an AI demand-response trial with factories in an industrial estate. Proven designs can then be bundled into tenders below about US$14.1 million.

How it works

Unsolicited proposals under Article 15

A storage or grid company can bring its own project to government under Article 15 of PPP Law No. 19 of 2023. Ideas include batteries at congested substations, efficient cooling for public schools repaid from savings, smart street lighting for other cities after Amman, electric vehicle charging along the Desert Highway, and smart meters and controls for public buildings. The proposer keeps the right to match the best offer if the project goes to tender.

How it works

New industries

What the sector can create

01Battery materialsVanadium from phosphate-mining slag turned into flow-battery electrolyte, as proposed for a plant in a Jordan Industrial Estates Company estate.
02Battery assemblyCells and packs for electronics, telecom, drones and storage, made in free zones such as the Industrial Gate Free Zone.
03Power tradingA regional market where Jordan buys and sells electricity by the hour with Egypt, the Gulf, Iraq and the Levant.
04Grid softwareJordanian companies that build forecasting, dispatch and demand-response software and sell it across the region.
05Smart city servicesConnected street lights, meters and sensors that also carry data for traffic, safety and city services.
06Electric mobilityCharging networks, fleet electrification and vehicle-to-grid services for a fleet heading towards 500,000 cars.

Opportunities

Where partners come in

Storage tenders: Prequalify for the Al-Mujib pumped-storage PPP by January 18, 2027, and prepare for the 100 MW battery tender committed before October 2027.
Direct proposals: Propose a project under Article 15 of PPP Law No. 19 of 2023, such as storage at substations or efficient cooling for public schools.
Small-scale PPPs: Regulation No. 9 of 2024 allows small-scale PPPs below about US$14.1 million, which suits street lighting and building efficiency bundles.
Grid contracts: Bid for NEPCO substation and line works, such as the new 400/132 kV substation in Aqaba for the national water project.
Manufacturing: Build battery, vanadium and grid equipment plants in development zones and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, with Investment Environment Law incentives.
Investment and ownership: Finance storage and interconnections through development banks, infrastructure funds and tokenized stakes that open ownership to more investors.

Stained-glass illustration in blue glass of a city of towers under a rising arch

The road to the singularity

2026Al-Mujib prequalification opens; the 100 MW battery is offered to investors; time-of-use tariffs reach every sector.
2030Up to 400 MW of storage in service; the Saudi link is built; Egypt upgrade studies lead to construction.
2035Losses fall to 8%; renewables reach 40%; Jordan trades power daily with its neighbours.
2040AI dispatches millions of batteries, cars and buildings as one fleet; robots maintain most of the network.
2050Jordan is a regional power hub, storing desert sunlight and selling it to its neighbours and beyond.

Storage and interconnection turn Jordan's sunlight into power on demand and its location into a market. The projects in this guide are the first steps towards a grid that runs as one intelligent system for the region.

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Guides for organizations

Launch a PPP program of your own

The guides closest to storage and grids, each showing one kind of organization how to launch a PPP program, with six first steps.

Economic sectors
Energy Developers
Your company launches a PPP program to develop solar, wind, storage, green hydrogen and grid projects as public-private partnerships (PPPs) and to power the water, transport and industrial projects around them.
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Operators and services
Utilities and Operators
Your company launches a PPP operations program to bid for operation and maintenance contracts and full concessions in water, power, transport, ports and waste, run with AI and robotics.
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Public sector
State-Owned Utilities and Companies
Your utility or company launches its own public-private partnership (PPP) program, with performance-based contracts for its networks and plants, a research lab that runs small PPPs in parallel and an open door to direct proposals from the private sector.
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Technology and knowledge
Technology Companies
Your company launches a PPP program to sell AI, robotics, sensors, digital twins and tokenization platforms into public-private partnership (PPP) projects and to join the consortiums that win them.
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Technology and knowledge
Data Center Companies
Your company launches a PPP program to build and run the data centers, government cloud and AI compute that public-private partnership (PPP) projects and public services depend on.
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