Who owns bifacial solar panels in Egypt?

The bifacial modules are producing energy from both sides of the solar panel, increasing the total clean energy generation. The project holds a 25-year PPA with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company. The equity partners are KLP Norfund Investments AS and Africa 50. Lenders are EBRD, FMO, IsDB, ICD and Green CF.

Is Egypt's first hybrid solar-plus-battery project?

Norwegian developer Scatec ASA has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 1 GW solar array and 100 MW/200 MWh battery storage project in Egypt. CEO Terje Pilskog says it is Egypt’s first hybrid solar-plus-battery project.

What is Scatec doing in Egypt?

In 2017, Scatec signed 25-year Power Purchase Agreements for delivery of electricity from six plants totalling 380 MW with the Government of Egypt. Benban site near Aswan in Upper Egypt where Scatec was in 2019 the world’s largest one-site project. This is Scatec’s largest and our first project using bifacial solar modules.

How much solar power does Egypt have?

The biggest chunk of Egyptian solar capacity is provided by the Benban project, which lies 50 km from Aswan and is one of the world’s biggest PV sites. Official figures on its capacity vary from 1.4 GW up to 1.8 GW, with the confusion apparently centering on the scope for expansion of some individual elements.

Is Egypt a good place to invest in solar energy?

Egypt has plenty of land and high solar yields, “making renewables highly competitive against other sources of energy,” the Scatec spokesperson said. But the main limiting factor is the high cost of financing as a result of rising global interest rates, they added.

Will Egypt build a microgrid?

Earlier this year, state-owned utility Egyptian Electricity Holding Co. held an expressions-of-interest tender for the design, construction and operation of a 8.2 MW solar plant and 2 MW/4MWh battery energy storage system, which would be built at the site of an existing microgrid in western Egypt.