CAIRO (Sputnik) — Egyptian authorities seek to transform the country into a regional center of electric power industry, given its strategic location and capacities, the spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy said on Wednesday.
"We have the ambition to make Egypt the regional center of electric power, taking into account its strategic location, common borders with several countries," Ayman Hamzah told RIA Novosti.
According to him, the currently existing grid connects Egypt and Jordan, and has a generating capacity of 450 megawatts.
"This grid will grow and expand from Jordan to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq," Hamzah said.
Hamzah added that the government elaborated a project, aiming at linking Egypt with the Persian Gulf states through Saudi Arabia by electrical grids.
"This is a 3,000-megawatt project, and we are already taking measures on its implementation," he said, adding that the project envisages running surface and submarine cables.
Hamzah also mentioned that there was an idea to link the electricity grids of Egypt and Sudan.
