ASWAN, EGYPT – Near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, a swath of photovoltaic solar panels spreads over an area of desert so large it is clearly visible from space.The article doesn't explain how they are doing to deal with the storage issue, but I assume some plans must be being made.
They are part of the Benban plant, one of the world’s largest solar parks following the completion last month of a second phase of the estimated $2.1 billion (¥229.8 billion) development project.
Designed to anchor the renewable energy sector by attracting foreign and domestic private-sector developers and financial backers, the plant now provides nearly 1.5 gigawatts to Egypt’s national grid and has brought down the price of solar energy at a time when the government is phasing out electricity subsidies.
In 2013, Egypt was suffering rolling blackouts due to power shortages at aging power stations. Three gigantic gas-powered stations with a capacity of 14.4 GW procured from Siemens in 2015 turned the deficit into a surplus.
National installed electricity capacity is now around 50 GW, and Egypt aims to increase the share of electricity provided by renewables from a fraction currently to 20 percent by 2022 and 42 percent by 2035.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
More solar power in the Northern parts of Africa
The other day I mentioned Morocco getting into renewable power in a big way. Turns out Egypt is ramping up solar power too:
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Its all just coal burning really. Its just the Chinese burning coals to make these short-lived panels, lying about their coal consumption and pulling foreign aid. Its not any kind of low carbon triumph.
Why are you assuming some plans will be made for storage? Thats never happened before to an adequate degree. Everywhere we see these investments pushing up the price of electricity, so we have to assume that the plans HAVEN'T been made and that these people will be victimised with high electricity prices like everyone who has done this.
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