Egypt begins building `environmentally friendly` projects using solar energy

Written By مثنى حزيّن on 2015/09/30

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com- The Ministry of Civil Aviation in Egypt has begun constructing a new environmentally friendly building at Burj Al Arab Airport at a cost of EGP 2.1 billion <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">. The new building will become the first environmentally friendly Egyptian airport system project, based on reducing carbon emissions and generating electricity through solar energy.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Most of the energy produced and consumed in the country depends on traditional fuel sources such as petroleum and natural gas. Hence, Egypt, which is considered one of the sunniest countries in the world, is working on implementing projects that rely on exploiting solar energy to save the high cost of traditional fuel sources.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Egypt had signed a cooperation agreement with France to conduct experiments to use solar energy at many airports, and it is planned to obtain a power of up to 20 megawatts for each airport, and to save about 42 million Egyptian pounds.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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