#Egypt

Egypt, Cairo: Egypt plans to increase the capacity of its power grid interconnection with Libya to 2,000 MW.

Egypt: Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power has been selected to develop 1.1 GW of wind power in Egypt, the developer revealed in its first quarterly results.

Greece, Athens: Egypt and Greece have signed an MoU for an electrical interconnection project of connecting the two countries via subsea cable.

Egypt, Cairo: A consortium of Hitachi Power Grids, SSEM and Orascom Construction has been awarded contracts for high-voltage substations and transmission lines.

Egypt, Ras Ghareb: One of Egypt’s prime areas for turning steady wind into much-needed electricity is the region around Ras Ghareb.

Egypt: Hitachi ABB Power Grids is EETC’s preferred partner for the project that will help improve resilience, safety and energy efficiency for 26 M people.

Nigeria: Minister Aliyu has announced the federal government in Nigeria plans collaboration with the government of Egypt to boost power supply in the country.

Egypt, Kairo: Egypt is seeking to boost its electric power distribution network following the signing of a $254mn (LE4bn) financing deal.

Egypt, Kairo: EETC has signed an $254 M (LE 4 B) joint financing contract with several Egyptian banks for the country’s transformer stations.

Egypt, Kairo: The Egyptian government is exploring interconnection projects between Egypt and Libya as well as with Europe.

Egypt, Kairo: The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El Sisi, has instructed the electricity ministry to expedite the extension of power supply lines to Sinai.

Egypt, Kom Ombo: Egypt’s largest solar plant, Kom Ombo has received $114 million financing package.

Saudi developer and investor ACWA Power has finalised the project agreements for the 200 MW Kom Ombo PV plant in Egypt.

Egypt, Kom Ombo: The African Development Bank’s Board of directors have approved $27.2 million in loan.

GE’s Grid Solutions announced the energisation of a ground-breaking project with Egypt’s West Delta Electricity Production Company.

The African Single Electricity Market is expected to be launched in February 2021 during the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

Egypt, Sadat City: Elsewedy Electric has secured a $22.4 M engineering, procurement, and construction contract to build a substation in Sadat City.

Egypt, Cairo: Frederic Abbal has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Elsewedy Electric Group, reporting to the CEO Ahmed Elsewedy.

A 500 MVA power transformer is currently being established in New Mansoura city at a total cost of $27.6 M (EGP440 M)

Kharafi National, a leading infrastructure project developer, has completed the construction of a 500kV substation, located in East Suhag region of Upper Egypt.

The government of the Arab Republic of Egypt is set to begin the construction of 2 transformer substations of 220 / 66 / 22 kV at Madinaty.

Munich-headquartered conglomerate Siemens energy company has been picked to provide the electrification package for Cairo Metro Line 3 expansion project.

Hideleco aims to complete the 220 kV overhead transmission line between El-Owainat and Gabal Al-Kamel in New Valley governorate before the end of the year.

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan’s ministers for foreign affairs and water resources met with the Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the World Bank.

EBRD is investing $60 M to become a shareholder in an Egyptian private energy company, Infinity Energy, through the issuance of new shares.

Elsewedy Electric has been awarded two engineering, procurement, and construction contracts worth $19.8 M by Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company.

EETC is preparing three tenders to establish 220 kV and 66 kV transformer stations in New Valley to supply future agriculture projects in the governorate.

Siemens announced that it has signed an agreement with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company to supply the country’s first digital power transformer.