The government of Egypt is set to construct a new National Energy Control Center in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), a large-scale project currently under construction in Cairo, the North African country capital city.
The country, through the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), awarded the contract for the project to a consortium made up of Siemens Smart Infrastructure, which is a department of Siemens AG, and Hassan Allam Construction, which is a subsidiary of Hassan Allam Holding, Egypt’s leading engineering, construction, and Infrastructure Company.
The US $53.4m project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. Scope of work includes the construction of a building in the NAC that will host the new National Control Center, including electro-mechanical works and all-auxiliary services.
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The future National Energy Control Center with a backup control center in Giza will run on Siemens Spectrum Power 7, which is the company’s flagship control center platform for transmission management in energy networks.
The high-performance platform includes a wide range of applications for grid monitoring and supervisory control, load and wind or solar power generation forecasting, network analysis, and optimization, cross-optimized thermal and hydro generation scheduling as well as generation dispatch and control.
According to Sabah Mashally, EETC ‘s chairperson, this project is another step toward a robust, smart, and efficient electrical grid that is not only crucial to Egypt’s economic development, but also to the enabling of faster implementation of renewable energy sources in the country.
The project further strengthens the close and successful cooperation between Egypt and Siemens to modernize the country’s electricity sector, after the joint development of the master plan for the Egyptian transmission network.
‘Our company has been operating in Egypt since 1936, and has contributed to many engineering, construction and infrastructure projects that have fostered tremendous economic and societal development across the nation. ‘We look forward to working with the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy towards achieving Egypt’s vision 2030,’ said Allam.
