The World Bank (WB) announced that it released $1b to Egypt as the second tranche of its $3b loan agreement signed with the Arab country in December 2015.
El Sewedy Electric is in talks with financial institutions for a loan to fund its 50MW solar power plant project in Benban as part of the feed-in tariff (FiT) program.
The Ismail cabinet reportedly signed off on EGP 37b in loans to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to fund expansions to absorb a production capacity of 18 GW by 2018.