President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi reviewed progress on the second section of tasks geared toward strengthening Egypt’s nationwide electrical energy grid throughout a gathering with Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electrical energy and Renewable Power, famous a Cupboard Assertion.
In line with the presidential spokesperson, Ambassador Mohamed El-Shenawy El-Shennawy, the assembly seemed into the implementation standing of the second section of grid reinforcement tasks, which includes round 105 tasks. Esmat additionally briefed the president on plans to attach photo voltaic and wind power tasks to the nationwide grid by 2027.
The assembly additionally make clear the continuing photo voltaic power and battery storage tasks as a part of Egypt’s plan to extend the share of renewable power within the energy combine to 45% inside the subsequent two years. Discussions coated the enlargement of each grid-connected and standalone power storage services.
Esmat highlighted the operation of the primary section of the Obelisk Photo voltaic Energy Plant, which was related to the grid earlier this yr. The primary section has a capability of 500 megawatts (MW), together with a 200 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery power storage system. He added that the second section of the challenge, with a further 500 MW of photo voltaic capability, is scheduled to be related to the grid within the coming weeks as a part of plans so as to add new photo voltaic and wind technology capability through the summer time.
The assembly additional reviewed developments associated to the Power Valley challenge, one of many world’s largest built-in clear power tasks. The challenge consists of 1.7 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic photo voltaic technology capability in Minya Governorate, supported by battery power storage techniques with a complete capability of 4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) distributed throughout Minya, Qena, and Alexandria.
The assembly got here a few days after Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi’s go to to Ain Sokhna, the place he inspected the liquefied pure fuel (LNG) regasification items to make sure full operational readiness forward of peak summer time demand.
