Onshore wind power: Amea launches work on a 500 MW field in Ras Ghareb, Egypt
UAE-based independent power producer (IPP) Amea Power is completing the installation of the first wind turbine in its Amunet wind farm in Egypt's Gulf of Suez. The field is expected to supply up to 500 MW to Egypt's national electricity grid.
Egypt is continuing its energy transition. Significant progress in this area is being made thanks to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) who are investing heavily. This is the case of Amea Power, which has just reached a new stage in the development of its Amunet wind power project in Ras Ghareb, 318 km south of Cairo. The Emirati company has just installed the very first wind turbine in the field, which will house 70 over the coming months. The aim is to deliver 500 MW of power.
To achieve this, Amea Power has enlisted the services of a consortium made up of the Chinese companies Huadong PowerChina Engineering Corporation and PowerChina for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Amunet wind farm. The field is equipped by Chinese supplier Envision Energy, which is installing its EN-171 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 6.5 MW.
An investment of $709 million
The wind farm’s output will be fed into the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) grid under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA). According to Amea Power, the facility will be capable of producing 2,300,000 MWh of electricity per year, enough to power at least 800,000 Egyptian households while offsetting 1,000,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.