The Benban Solar Park Project was developed in Egypt's Western Desert near Aswan under the government's feed-in tariff program for renewable energy, attracting financing from international development banks including the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Built between 2017 and 2019, the park brought together 41 separate photovoltaic plants from a mix of Egyptian and international developers onto shared grid infrastructure. It became one of the largest solar installations in Africa and a flagship project for Egypt's broader effort to diversify its electricity supply beyond natural gas.
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Project Type LocationEgypt (Aswan Governorate) 2 Completion Year Scale1,650 MW installed capacity from 41 separate solar plants built by different developers 1 Status
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Photovoltaic solar park development project, Aswan Governorate, Egypt.
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Benban Solar Park (Wikipedia)
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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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