Egypt, Saudi Award Contracts to Link Electricity Grids
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday awarded contracts to connect the two nation’s power grids, in a project that could allow the countries to exchange as much as 3 gigawatts of electrical capacity.
Orascom Construction and Hitachi ABB Power Grids will undertake the work in Egypt, while a separate consortium of Hitachi ABB and SSEM will carry out the work in the kingdom, Orascom said in a statement.