In February 2019, eleven months after construction works started, ACCIONA and Enara Bahrain Spv Wll (ENARA), the renewable energy platform of the Saudi company Swicorp, completed three photovoltaic plants in Egypt with a total a rated capacity of 150 megawatts (MW) - 186 MWp. The facilities, owned at 50% by both companies, represent an investment of around 180 million US dollars and are located in the Benban complex, set up by the Egyptian Government in the Aswan region. They represent the first renewables project by ACCIONA Energía in Egypt.
The three projects come under the feed-in tariff system established by the Egyptian Administration in call for tender Round 2, published in October 2016. Overall, they will produce clean energy equivalent to the consumption of around 150,000 Egyptian homes and avoid the emission of 297,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum from fuel-oil power plants.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Location: Benban, Aswan (Egypt).
- Total peak capacity: 186 MWp.
- Total rated capacity: 150 MW.
- Technoloy: Solar PV on horizontal-axis tracking structures l.
- Start-up: 2019
- Ownership: ACCIONA (50%), Enara (Swicorp) (50%)
KEY POINTS
- First ACCIONA's renewable facility in Egypt.
- Ownership shared between ACCIONA (50%) and Enara Bahrain Spv Wll, renewable energy platform of Swicorp (50%)
- Total investment around USD180m
- Estimated average annual energy output: 456 GWh.
- Clean energy enough to power 150,000 Egyptian homes.
- The power generated will be supplied to the utility Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) under a long-term PPA contract.
- More than 297,000 tonnes of CO2 avoided from fuel-oil thermal power plants annually.
- 572,322 solar modules in the three plants.