South Sinai Governor, Khaled Fouda, has inaugurated a solar energy station in Abu Ghrkud village at Abu Rudeis in the presence of Schneider Electric Egypt's Deputy CEO, Sherif Abdel Fattah.

The announcement was made during the India-Africa Project Partnership conclave that took place on March 17 – 19 in New Delhi.

After completing the solar plant, it is expected to have a production capacity of around 300 megawatts to meet the energy needs of approximately 45,000 homes in the Al Jawf region.

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has set aside $5.2 billion to carry out projects in the upcoming five years, KNPC CEO Mohammed Al-Mutairi said.

A number of local and foreign investors were awarded a mega solar energy project in Al Minya Governorate.

Benha Electronics Company aims to increase solar cells manufacturing capacity from 50MW to 100MW starting 2017.

The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has addressed the solar energy companies’ investors in Aswan to pay the third installment of the EGP 10m cost-sharing agreement that links the solar power plants with the national electricity grid, before the beginning of July 2016.

The Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) received six land allocation requests from companies that qualified for the New and Renewable Energy Authority’s (NREA) feed-in tariff project to construct solar power plant stations.