The Saudi Electricity Company and the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company signed on Tuesday, October 6 the awarding contracts of the electrical interconnection project between the Kingdom and Egypt.

The contracts, which were signed simultaneously between Riyadh and Cairo, included contracts with three consortiums of international and local companies to implement the connection project, which has a capacity of 3,000 megawatts, with a 500 kV HVDC technology.

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