An alliance between Artelia and ÅF won the tender to consult on the Ataqa water storage and pumping project. The project will rely on a triple-treatment procedure for the water produced from the sewage plant in Suez. The government signed a memorandum of understanding with Sinohydro during the Egypt Economic Development Conference held in March 2014 in Sharm El-Sheikh to build a power plant in Ataqa with a capacity of 2,100MW. Osama added that the water pumping and storage technology is the best method for storing electricity in the world. The new technology will decrease the costs of operating networks and provide more security and stability to the electricity grid.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 16, 2017 09:33 UTC