Abdullah Alkattan

Lead Middle East Energy Analyst

Abdullah Alkattan covers the Middle East and North Africa energy transition for BloombergNEF, the Bloomberg research arm that tracks power markets, clean energy investment and the technologies reshaping electricity supply. His work centres on Saudi Arabia's build-out of utility-scale solar and wind, the economics sitting behind it, and the financing conditions that decide which projects reach construction. He has explained to international media how the sheer size of Saudi solar tenders lets developers negotiate module and construction costs downwards, and why taking oil out of the domestic power mix frees barrels for export. He has also tracked the tighter credit environment now facing renewable developers in the Kingdom, while holding to his view that Saudi renewable projects remain highly bankable.