Egypt... The start of operation of the largest solar power plant in Sharm El Sheikh

Weather of Arabia - TAQA Electricity Company, a subsidiary of the Egyptian Energy Distribution Company, Taqa Arabia, announced that it has started operating the largest solar power plant in Sharm El-Sheikh on an area of 250,000 square meters with a capacity of 20 megawatts and a production capacity of more than 42 gigawatts per hour per year, according to Reuters.

Next month, the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh will host the United Nations Climate Conference COP27, and the government is working on transforming it into a green city by increasing reliance on renewable and new energy.

The executive managing director of TAQA Arabia, Pakinam Kafafi, indicated in a statement that "the operation of the solar power plant with a capacity of 20 megawatts sufficient to supply more than six thousand hotel rooms of clean electricity has already begun, and all work has been completed and started operating in an unprecedented record time." It did not exceed four months, which contributed to transforming Sharm El-Sheikh into a smart green city.

She added that the company is investing in other projects that serve South Sinai in the same context, such as charging stations for electric cars and operating other stations to supply cars with compressed natural gas, which contributes to reducing carbon emissions.

The managing director of TAQA Electricity Company, Sami Abdel Qader, said in the same statement that the Nabq solar power plant project, which is located in the Nabq Bay area in South Sinai Governorate, in cooperation with the Swiss company First Klimat, at an investment cost of 250 million pounds, will reduce carbon emissions by about 500 thousand tons during the life of the project, which extends to 25 years.

The station is scheduled to serve the tourist area of Nabq, where the electricity is distributed by Global Energy, a subsidiary of the Arab Energy Company.