ZAKH Renewable Energy and Engineering Manufacturing opened a solar-panel and building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) facility in the Al Ghail Industrial Zone of Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone on 14 September 2026. The Ras Al Khaimah Government Media Office and Emirates News Agency said the 30,000-square-metre site is intended to serve the UAE, the wider region and other markets. Its announced output includes solar modules as well as customised façade products designed to form part of buildings.

RAKEZ and WAM reported annual production capacity of 600 megawatts of solar panels and up to 500,000 square metres of BIPV façade solutions. The megawatt figure describes the rated output of panels the factory can manufacture over a year; it is not the generating capacity of a power plant supplying electricity to the grid. The façade figure measures a different product by area. These are separate manufacturing lines and should not be added together as if they were a single measure of energy capacity.

Building-integrated photovoltaics place electricity-generating solar modules within building elements, in this case façades, instead of treating panels only as rooftop or ground-mounted equipment. That requires construction and energy design to be coordinated within a project. Company and zone representatives said the facility would manufacture customised façade solutions alongside solar modules. Their announcements did not detail product efficiency, module technology, local sourcing shares or orders already secured. Factory capacity should therefore not be presented as completed sales or as installed solar generation.

A RAKEZ executive said the factory adds renewable-energy equipment manufacturing to Ras Al Khaimah’s industrial ecosystem and could strengthen local supply chains. The 30,000-square-metre plot indicates the site’s physical scale, but the public announcement did not give the project cost, staffing, use of locally sourced inputs or export targets. It also did not report measured effects on equipment delivery times or project costs for regional customers.

The opening creates a new manufacturing asset for solar technology in the UAE; it does not add 600 MW directly to the country’s electricity supply. Progress can be tracked through the ramp-up of production, the proportion of capacity used, projects that adopt the BIPV products, and the split between domestic and export sales. The verified development is that the factory has opened with two stated product capacities. No figures were supplied for actual output or orders at launch.