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Project Summary for Photovoltaic Power Plant in Egypt 1 1. Introduction The Egyptian New & Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), in cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is planning to establish a Photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Hurghada at the Red Sea Governorate. In this context an Environmental Impact Assessment Study is being conducted by JICA Study team. JICA study team consists of Tokyo Electric Power Service Co., Ltd.(TEPSCO) and Shikoku Electric Power Company (YONDEN) conducting feasibility study. EIA study is a part of the feasibility study supported by Environics. A public scoping was carried out for identification of environmental concerns of different stakeholders regarding the proposed project. Accordingly, individual scoping meetings were conducted with key stakeholders in Cairo and Hurghada. Following the individual meetings a public scoping meeting was organized to present the stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and allow for additional interaction between the different stakeholders in February 2012. Accordingly, the disclosure meeting is organized in October 2012 to present the draft Environmental Statement of the Impact Assessment (ESIA) to the different stakeholders and discuss the mitigation measures implemented to address the issues raised during the scoping meeting. 2. Project Location The project is planned to be located on the site of Hurghada wind farm owned by NREA as shown in Figure 1. Photovoltaic (PV) modules shall be installed in an area inclined from northwest to south west around 30 percent of the wind farm area. The project area is about 500,000 m 2, of which about 354,000 m 2 , designated for the PV panels (for an average number of 100,000 panels) the remaining area allocated for the transformers and control rooms, buildings and surrounding roads. NREA/JICA October 2012
Project Summary for Photovoltaic Power Plant in Egypt 2 The Location and Surrounding Area of PV Project The ESIA covers the following components: Construction phase Operation phase 3. Project Description 3.1 Project Components The project is the first of its kind to utilize solar energy to directory generate electricity with a capacity of 20 MW to be connected to the National Grid. The project consists of three main components as follows: Solar field: The main component of photovoltaic power plant is the solar field, which is a group of semiconductors made up of silicon or other compounds processed into PV panels that convert photonic energy of the sun into Direct Current (DC) electricity with values proportional to the PV panels absorption fact of sun light. NREA/JICA October 2012
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