Electricity Min. follows up on Implementation Status of Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant

Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mahmoud Esmat on Thursday followed up on the progress made in implementing the Dabaa nuclear power plant's project.

The project is set to provide about 10 percent of Egypt’s energy consumption with annual production of up to 37 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.

The Dabaa plant, located in the Matrouh governorate in northwestern Egypt, is the country's first nuclear power plant. The 4.8 GW plant is being built by Russia's state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom in collaboration with Egypt’s Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) and is expected to be fully operational by 2030. Rosatom was contracted in 2015 to build the plant and provide it with fuel.