Voltalia announces it has started the construction of Râ Solar, a 32MW solar power plant located in the Ben Ban complex, in the Aswan region (Upper Egypt).
The project will benefit from a 25-year power sales contract with the state-owned Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company ("EETC"), which will come into effect starting from the commissionning of the plant, scheduled for H2 2019. The contract was signed upon an official visit of president Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi in Paris in October 2017.
Râ Solar will be equipped with 93,150 Suntech photovoltaic panels of a 345W unit capacity mounted on a single axis with trackers and, at peak, around 150 people will be working on the construction site.