Egypt: EIB joins EBRD and AfDB to fund Damanhour CCGT scheme


Issue 308 - 25 Sep 2015 | 1 minute read

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has emerged as lead financer of the 1,800MW Damanhour combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in the Nile Delta. A €548m ($620m) loan for the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) is under appraisal, representing about 44.5% of the estimated $1.34bn total cost of the project, located on the El-Mahmoudia canal in El-Beheira governorate, 150km north-west of Cairo.The project consists of two 900MW combined-cycle modules, each with two 300MW high-efficiency gas turbines, two multi-pressure heat-recovery steam generators without supplementary firing, and a 300MW reheat steam turbine generator.

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