500MW Aswan PV

Construction of the 500MW Aswan solar photovoltaic plant in in the Aswan Governorate, Egypt. The proposed project site is located in the Aswan Governorate, around 600km southeast of Cairo. The plant is a utility grade grid-connected PV array power system, carried on a horizontal single-axis beam tracker, consisting of approximately 1 million, bifacial crystalline PV panels with anti-reflective coating. Preliminary design indicates that the plant will include central inverter stations, converting direct current from the panels to alternating current, and a substation, converting to appropriate voltage for connection directly to the national grid with no storage batteries required. Connection to the grid will be through a 10.1 km overhead transmission line constructed and operated by the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company. The plant will also include ancillary structures like office and data control building, warehouses and workshops, and internal roads; the plant will be completely fenced. Access to the site is via a short connection to the existing Luxor-Aswan highway running north-south about 1.5km from the site east boundary. The exact GPS co-ordinates are currently not available, however the GPS marker has been placed at the general location until the exact location is confirmed 23.6966498, 32.7181375. The project value is US$265 million.