CAIRO – 15 July 2021: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli held Wednesday a meeting with Scatec CEO Raymond Carlsen and the representatives of Metito as well as Orascom Construction to examine introducing desalination plants powered by renewable energy. Within 18 months, 19 desalination plants worth a total of LE11 billion and whose total daily production is 550,000 cubic meters will be inaugurated. Egypt is expected to have 65 desalination plants distributed among six governorates that are Matrouh, South Sinai, Suez, Ismailiyah, North Sinai, and the Red Sea. The total daily production of those is 750,000 cubic meters. North Sinai and South Sinai will be home to 21 and nine plants whose capacity per day is 20,000 cubic meters and 75,000 cubic meters, respectively.
