Benban Solar Park is a photovoltaic solar power station in Egypt's Western Desert, near the town of Benban in Aswan Governorate, about 650 kilometers south of Cairo. Built across 41 separate plots spanning roughly 37 square kilometers at a cost of about four billion dollars, it was completed in November 2019 with an installed capacity of about 1,800 megawatts and an expected annual output of 3.8 to 4.5 terawatt hours. It ranks among the largest solar power plants in the world, and its scale is such that the installation is visible from space.
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Facility TypePhotovoltaic solar power station 1 LocationBenban, Aswan Governorate, Egypt 1 Capacity (MW) Commissioned Year Connections
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Photovoltaic solar park, Aswan Governorate, Egypt, one of the largest solar installations in Africa.
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1,800 MW
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It ranks among the largest solar power plants in the world, and its scale is such that the installation is visible from space.
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located in Benban (Aswan Governorate) in the western desert
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Benban Solar Park is a large-scale photovoltaic power station in Egypt with a current installed capacity of 1800 MW (1.8 GW) nominal power which corresponds to an annual production of approximately 3.8-4.5 TWh.
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