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How can Egypt store electricity?

Egypt has been looking at a number of ways to store electricity as part of its ambitions to grow renewable energy capacity to cover 42% of the country’s electricity needs by 2030. These include upgrading its power grid and incorporating pumped-storage hydroelectricity stations to help store electricity for future use.

Can batteries solve Egypt's Electricity oversupply problem?

Egypt is exploring the potential of energy storage through batteries to combat our electricity oversupply problem: As Egypt continues to suffer from a major oversupply of electricity, the country is in need of new ways to tackle the issue.

What is Scatec doing in Egypt?

In 2017, Scatec signed 25-year Power Purchase Agreements for delivery of electricity from six plants totalling 380 MW with the Government of Egypt. Benban site near Aswan in Upper Egypt where Scatec was in 2019 the world’s largest one-site project. This is Scatec’s largest and our first project using bifacial solar modules.

What is a large-scale energy storage project?

The project aims at providing the scientific, technological and policy basis required for the development and implementation of large-scale energy storage in Egypt, enabling increased penetration of renewable energy sources in the Egyptian energy system.