Egypt to begin new 20-MW solar project in Hurghada – sources

Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) revealed on Tuesday the implementation of a 20-MW solar power plant in Hurghada with $85 million loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JIKA).

NERA’s sources said that the project scheduled to start the implementation before the end of this year.

The Authority has cleared an area of half a million meters of earmarked land to establishing the solar power plant, the sources added.

This process came after a Japanese consulting office has completed studies for the construction of the plant to produce 20 megawatts and operate on a battery-storage system for 24 hours continuously.

In addition to that Egypt is nearing to finish another large-scale solar project in the Zafarana area of the Suez governorate on the Red Sea coast.

The 50-MW solar farm developed by a Belectric-CCC consortium as it expected to start in the third quarter of this year, according to an earlier statement by NREA.