Power First
Egypt turned a stretch of desert into Africa's largest solar park.
Egypt turned a stretch of desert into Africa's largest solar park.
Near Aswan, 41 separate plots were built by different developers and stitched into Benban - 1,465 megawatts feeding Egypt's grid across 37 square kilometres of desert.
The model: let many builders each raise one plot, and the desert becomes a power station.
Egypt is powering itself at scale.