Egypt-SIA examines solar goals, market conditions

n a new report, the Egypt Solar Industry Association looks at the current state of the country's ambitious solar development plans, including an overview of government policy, the country's feed-in tariff program and perspectives from a number of stakeholders.
While Egypt has an average solar radiation of between 2,000 and 3,000 kilowatt hours per square meter, in addition to excellent wind conditions and hydropower potential, the country’s installed renewable energy capacity accounted for just 1% as of 2013.
That's about to change.

Egypt has set an ambitious goal to install 4.3 GW of wind and solar power by 2017, including 2.3 GW of solar (2 GW of large-scale and 300 MW of small scale under 500 kW) and 2 GW of wind. The feed-in tariff for installations between 500 kW and 20 MW is $0.136 per kilowatt hour; for plants between 20 MW and 50 MW, it is $0.143 per kilowatt hour.