Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation, announced that, under this plan, the four projects under the energy pillar of the NWFE program will be linked to the national electricity grid by the upcoming summer, supporting the state’s efforts to reinforce grid stability and increase the capacity of clean electrical energy.
As per the second progress report for the NWFE program, the first phase of projects, scheduled to be connected before the summer of 2025, will have a total capacity of 3,700 megawatts (MW) of solar energy.
This is in addition to a storage capacity through batteries standing at 2,840 MW-hours.
These projects will enable the unified grid to absorb the expected renewable energy capacities, hence contributing to solving the electricity outage issue and meeting the country’s electricity needs.