Thanks to its megaprojects, Egypt is one of the main renewable energy producing countries in the North Africa and Middle East (Mena) region. But Cairo now wants to accelerate the export of its electricity in the sub-region, to make its infrastructures profitable. Mohammed Shaker, the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, has announced the government’s desire to establish an electricity connection with Iraq. But since 1999, Egypt has had an electricity connection with Jordan, with which it shares an inlet in the Gulf of Aqaba. The North African country has an installed solar photovoltaic capacity of 1,700 MWp and 1,465 MW for wind power.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 07, 2021 12:56 UTC