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Egypt, World Bank sign $820m loan agreements for CCGT, wind projects
Nov 8th
Egypt and the World Bank have signed two new loan agreements worth a total $820m to finance the construction of a gas fired power plant and a wind farm.
The two agreements are for the construction of a 1500 MW combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in north Giza, near Cairo, worth $600m, and the development of wind power project worth $220m.
Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Abulnaga and Shamsad Akhtar, the World Bank vice president for the Middle East and North Africa region, signed the agreements.
Akhtar said the World Bank was “pleased to support the renewable energy strategy of More >
Seawater-Based Biofuels: Texas’ Energy Allied International &New Nile Co., Egypt
Apr 17th
Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom Florida, United States [Biofuels Digest]
A visitor to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism would have been awestruck by the massive posters touting Winston cigarettes as “the taste of freedom” that often plastered locations where posters of Chairman Stalin and his ilk has once fluttered. It looked as if Christo had wrapped the Iron Curtain in a project sponsored by R.J. Reynolds.
If there were a taste to energy freedom, it would be salt for sure. Our ancestral mother, the ocean, forms an almost unfathomable medium of mystery — astronaut Scott Carpenter More >
