Egypt to get world’s largest clean-coal plant

Plans are underway for the construction of the largest clean-coal plant in the world in the Egyptian town of Hamrawein, to generate a massive seven gigawatts of power when it operational in 2024. “This will be the world’s most advanced ultra-supercritical clean-coal plant,” said Zou Lei, Chairman of the Dongfang Electric Corporation, which is among the group of Chinese companies that won the contract. The $4.4 billion project, 600 kilometres south east of Cairo, would be funded by Chinese and Egyptian banks.