Egypt – Largest Wind Farm in the World.
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:19 pm
Egypt – Largest Wind Farm in the World.
“Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will inaugurate on Tuesday a number of new electricity mega projects in the country, including the Gabal El-Zeit wind farm, which is considered the largest in the world, according to the Egyptian presidency.
Launched in 2015 in the Red Sea governorate, the Gabal El-Zeit wind farm will have a total of 300 wind turbines with an overall capacity of 580 megawatts.” (no mention of the contractor). http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... n-wor.aspx
This is garbage and a lie that takes 20 seconds to disprove. They don't mention that wind will, probably, be more expensive.
There are dozens vastly larger including the Chinese one which will be 38 times larger in 2020 and is currently 15-20 times larger. https://interestingengineering.com/the- ... -footprint
In any case why would you plunge head-first into a new, expensive, complicated technology that you had no previous experience of or any skills to manage or maintain. Wouldn’t a sensible person scale up over a few years.
Another pathetic attempt to create a soufflé out of offal except, as with all other matters, lots of money gets wasted and delivery is a fraction of the promise.
There has been huge amounts tossed around in the last 4 years on solar (no Egyptian skills to run or maintain it and produces more expensive power than gas), gas, (maybe coal), now wind and a huge investment of $US30 billion for the dynamite Russian nuclear reactor (no Egyptian skills to run or maintain it and produces more expensive power). There is nothing spent to improve the efficiency of the horrible wire network which leaks power nor on the most basic conservation/demand reduction systems like high technology globes, house and flat design, new technology street lighting, energy efficient appliances, rules for companies to turn out office lights, special deals with corporate high users to ‘smooth out’ their peak usage to remove the spikes in the demand on the total system, tax breaks to companies and individuals to install roof top solar etc.
These options are cheap and force the citizen/company to face the screamingly obvious - we wast energy and need to change our behavior. Some of these domestic options might also, with government incentives, reduce household costs for the poor as well as the drain on the whole system leading, which if not managed, to new expensive plants which will increase the unit cost of electricity..With all the new capital and new technology one thing is certain - future electricity will become expensive whatever happens to the subsidy system
Substantially more expensive power may also affect jobs in the sense that it will add to costs and the costs of products in the domestic and export market. In general terms high energy costs will threaten your company and may lead you to reduce staffing/replace people with machines. We will see but I suspect that the most successful countries in 20 years will be those that have sorted their energy - environment safe and low cost.
In addition, and not referred to much publically in Egypt, the government has signed a huge $US18 billion gas supply contract with Israel. What this gas will be used for is a mystery and won't Egypt soon be the 'biggest gas producer in the world' from its own sources. In particular its signed it with a company, Apache, which is quite small but the co-discoverer of the giant Israeli Leviathan field. So its Jewish gas and with Apache a Jewish firm. Wait till the souk hears this. In any event its another huge lump on money spent on energy - in this case hard currency sent outside Egypt.
In typical fashion the Junta hates detail/adjustment/refinement/reform and always wants to build another new pyramid rather than fix up the last one.
“Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will inaugurate on Tuesday a number of new electricity mega projects in the country, including the Gabal El-Zeit wind farm, which is considered the largest in the world, according to the Egyptian presidency.
Launched in 2015 in the Red Sea governorate, the Gabal El-Zeit wind farm will have a total of 300 wind turbines with an overall capacity of 580 megawatts.” (no mention of the contractor). http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... n-wor.aspx
This is garbage and a lie that takes 20 seconds to disprove. They don't mention that wind will, probably, be more expensive.
There are dozens vastly larger including the Chinese one which will be 38 times larger in 2020 and is currently 15-20 times larger. https://interestingengineering.com/the- ... -footprint
In any case why would you plunge head-first into a new, expensive, complicated technology that you had no previous experience of or any skills to manage or maintain. Wouldn’t a sensible person scale up over a few years.
Another pathetic attempt to create a soufflé out of offal except, as with all other matters, lots of money gets wasted and delivery is a fraction of the promise.
There has been huge amounts tossed around in the last 4 years on solar (no Egyptian skills to run or maintain it and produces more expensive power than gas), gas, (maybe coal), now wind and a huge investment of $US30 billion for the dynamite Russian nuclear reactor (no Egyptian skills to run or maintain it and produces more expensive power). There is nothing spent to improve the efficiency of the horrible wire network which leaks power nor on the most basic conservation/demand reduction systems like high technology globes, house and flat design, new technology street lighting, energy efficient appliances, rules for companies to turn out office lights, special deals with corporate high users to ‘smooth out’ their peak usage to remove the spikes in the demand on the total system, tax breaks to companies and individuals to install roof top solar etc.
These options are cheap and force the citizen/company to face the screamingly obvious - we wast energy and need to change our behavior. Some of these domestic options might also, with government incentives, reduce household costs for the poor as well as the drain on the whole system leading, which if not managed, to new expensive plants which will increase the unit cost of electricity..With all the new capital and new technology one thing is certain - future electricity will become expensive whatever happens to the subsidy system
Substantially more expensive power may also affect jobs in the sense that it will add to costs and the costs of products in the domestic and export market. In general terms high energy costs will threaten your company and may lead you to reduce staffing/replace people with machines. We will see but I suspect that the most successful countries in 20 years will be those that have sorted their energy - environment safe and low cost.
In addition, and not referred to much publically in Egypt, the government has signed a huge $US18 billion gas supply contract with Israel. What this gas will be used for is a mystery and won't Egypt soon be the 'biggest gas producer in the world' from its own sources. In particular its signed it with a company, Apache, which is quite small but the co-discoverer of the giant Israeli Leviathan field. So its Jewish gas and with Apache a Jewish firm. Wait till the souk hears this. In any event its another huge lump on money spent on energy - in this case hard currency sent outside Egypt.
In typical fashion the Junta hates detail/adjustment/refinement/reform and always wants to build another new pyramid rather than fix up the last one.
But what they have started to use are the cluster LED lights, 50,000 hours I believe. I have one outside my door, into the third year now, in the past it would of been on its second sodium bulb which are expensive.