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Egypt and Sudan electrical grid as the first stage of the continental electrical interconnection using the right way of Cairo - Cape Town Road.

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Project Title	Egypt and Sudan electrical grid as the first stage of the continental electrical interconnection using the right way of Cairo - Cape Town Road.
PIDA Sector	Energy
PIDA Sub-sector	Transmission Lines
Member States	Egypt
Region	Northern Africa
Beneficiary Countries	Egypt, Sudan
Regional Economic Community	Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Project Institution	Ministry of Electricity & Renewable Energy , Egypt

Strategic Alignment and Regional Commitment

Source in the National Master Plan	Establishing strong interconnection between Egypt and African power networks else Egypt strategic vision of being a regional energy hub.
Source in the REC Master Plan	EAPP Master Plan - An advantage can be taken of the Cairo-Cape Town road campus to create a giant electricity transmission corridor using right way established along Cairo-Cape Town road campus which is a PICI project.
Brief Description of the Project	It is suggested that the first stage of the track to be Egypt - Sudan electrical grid with a path of length of about 2200 km from Cairo (Egypt) to Khartoum and Gedaref (Sudan) parallel to the continental road by establishing two circuits with a HVDC of 1000 kV (or a mixture of alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) solutions of 800 kV, according to the results of technical and economic feasibility studies).
Objective and Rationale for the Project	The main objective of this is to create a harmonized Integrated Continental Transmission Network (ICTN). The ICTN will link all the power utilities networks within each regional power pool forming one regional network for each power pool and interconnect all the regional power pools to a unitary transmission system and electricity-trading floor.
Location/Site	Right way of Cairo-Cape Town road.
Existing or Planned Projects along the proposed project	The project serves an existing infrastructure asset of another sector, but there is more than 50% overlap in the geography serviced by the proposed project and the other sector existing asset.
Please provide more details for your choice above	Creating a giant electricity interconnection grid parallel along all the road track of the PICI project of the continental road of the Cairo-Cape Town road .
Technical Specifications of the Project	Transmission Corridor can be constructed with a capacity of approximately 16000 MVA (4 VAC) from Cairo to Cape Town through Sudan , South Sudan and Ethiopia. This path is connected to the high-voltage stations in the countries where the line path passes by the establishment of voltage reduction stations (eg 1000/500 KV using transformers of 1000 MVA per transformer).
Market Size	The five regional power pools (EAPP , SAPP , CAPP , WAPP , COMELEC)
Project Financial (in USD)	About 2.2 billion dollars approximately (Transmission lines - Transformers' Stations).
Gender Procurement actions	The project will seek to have a procurement preference for women.
Last Milestone Known	S1 - Project Definition

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