Egypt will open its first solar energy plant by the end of this year, electricity and energy minister Hassan Yunis said in a report published Monday on the ministry's website.
Egypt
will
open its first solar energy plant by the end of this year, electricity and
energy minister Hassan Yunis said in a report published Monday on the
ministry's website.
The plant will be among four in the world with a 140-megawatt capacity, the
report said.
Yunis had earlier said the government-run plant south of
Cairo
would
be linked to the national grid as
Egypt
tries
to meet a target of producing 20% of its energy needs from renewable sources by
the end of 2020.
The country's oil and gas reserves are projected to last for three more decades.
Last week another Middle Eastern country, the
United
Arab Emirates
, said it was building
"the world's largest" concentrated solar power plant.
State-owned Masdar in the UAE said that French oil firm Total SA (TOT) and
Spain
's
Abengoa Solar were partners in a project to build the 100-megawatt facility.
Concentrated solar plants use mirrors to heat liquid which then heats water to
power a steam generator that produces electricity.
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