Egyptian authorities inaugurated the first power station at the Benban solar complex, having entered into the operational phase in December 2017. The production unit with a capacity of 64 MW was set up by the German company Ib Vogt GmbH, in collaboration with Egyptian Solar Systems.
“In this plant, we have 200,000 solar panels and 780 solar trackers that allow the panels to follow the movement of the sun throughout the day. The approximately 95-hectare facilities will produce the equivalent of the consumption of 20,000 households,” said Amine el-Edghiri, the project manager of the German company, according to Bloomberg.
This plant is the first in a series of 32 that will have a projected capacity of 1.8 GW for a setup cost of $2.8 billion.