Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy

A consortium of Dongfang Electric Corp. and Shanghai Electric Group signed a $4.4 billion EPC contract with Egypt's Ministry of Electricity to build the 6.6 GW Hamrawein coal-fired power plant. Construction will take six years.

The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity has postponed the opening of financial bids for the Egypt-Saudi Arabia electrical interconnection project to January 25, 2018. Four companies (ABB, Siemens, Alstom, State Grid) submitted bids. The project, costing about USD 1.6 billion, aims to exchange 3,000 MW by 2019.