Hybrid power plant with a capacity of 150 megawatts uses solar energy as well as natural gas and can be operated around the clock.Solar Millennium Group responsible for solar field technology.
Spanning across the uninhabited desert landscape, the CSP plant will collect solar energy through a total mirror surface area of 130,000m2.
The plant is an ISCC (Integrated Solar Combined Cycle) facility, which combines solar energy with a combined cycle gas plant, thus saving fuel and increasing the plant’s overall output.
About 100 km south of Cairo lies Kuraymat, Egypt's first concentrated solar energy plant, which is expected to produce 120 MW.
Egypt will produce 280 megawatts of solar power under a five-year development plan, according to Electricity and Energy Minister Hassan Yunis.
Experimental operation of Egypt’s solar-thermal power plant in Kuraimat, about 90 km south of Cairo, starts this week in preparation for getting it to work at full capacity by the end of 2011, the undersecretary of the m
The World Bank has partnered with Morocco and Egypt on two innovative projects that use a hybrid concentrated solar power (CSP) technology to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Solar Millennium’s subsidiary Flagsol has delivered the technology for the region’s first solar-thermal plant.
The Concentrating Solar Power plant in Kuraymat, an uninhabited flat desert area about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Cairo, will have a solar capacity of 20 megawatts.
