Orascom Construction Company, Engie, and an unspecified Japanese firm will build a 250 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ras Ghareb.

Egyptian Orascom Construction Company signed a new contract to establish a 650MW steam turbine power plant worth $1m.

China's TBEA and the Egyptian Orascom won the tender for implementing transformers’ substations and civil works for the Walideya power plant in Assiut.

Orascom Construction is in talks to form a consortium to bid on establishing the 6000 MW $8b Hamrawein clean coal power plant, CEO, Osama Bishai said. Bishai named Shanghai Electric, Dongfang Electric, Mitsubishi Hitachi, and Sumitomo Electric, as potential partners the company is negotiating with.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will jointly inaugurate the first phase of the Siemens power plants.

Toyota, Orascom, and GD France alliance is waiting the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) to complete the land allocation agreement for the Gulf of Suez wind farm.

Egypt's Electricity Minister, Mohamed Shaker, met with Siemens executives to discuss the electricity grid master plan, which aims to strengthen and develop the electricity network in Egypt until 2025.

Egypt called on Toyota, Orascom, and GD France alliance to accept that arbitration in case of dispute to be held in Cairo, in order to complete the contracting on the Suez Gulf wind farm.

The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) extended the decline for receiving bids for the development of a 200MW solar plant in west of the Nile. Bidders can submit their bids until mid 2017.

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance approved issuing a financial guarantee for a new 250MW wind farm in the Gulf of Suez to be granted to a venture between Toyota, Orascom and GD France.