KarmSolar, a solar technology and integration company, announced the signing of a US$23 million agreement with two Dakahlia Group subsidiaries: Dakahlia South Valley for Poultry and Dakahlia Wadi al-Natroun for Agriculture to save 75 per cent of their power needs from solar power over the coming 30 years. The agreement stipulates that KarmSolar will have constructed two 26.5 megawatt (MW) solar power plants in Minya governorate and Wadi al-Natrun area in Wadi al-Gaded governorate by 2018. Charges of the company’s solar power are cheaper than the government’s solar power, he added. The plant in Minya governorate will provide solar power for a chicken breeding farm complex with a total production capacity of 140 million chicks per day. CEO of Dakahlia Agricultural Development Company and Vice Chairman of Dakahlia Group, Khalid Anani, said that his company, in consideration of being the largest producer and supplier of food stuff in Egypt, needs large amounts of solar power after costs of electric power recently surged up.

Source: Egypt Independent October 02, 2017 12:00 UTC