Cairo: OnePress
The Minister of Energy, Eng. Mutasim Ibrahim Ahmed, announced that the talks with the Egyptian side on cooperation in the electricity and energy sector have yielded positive results, with the participation of the Governor of the Northern State and the Director of the Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company, and in the presence of Ambassador Hani Salah, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt for Sudan and South Sudan, stressing that the electricity capacity exported from Egypt to Sudan is currently 75 megawatts, after it was agreed to increase from 50 to 80 megawatts.
The minister said that the current increase will contribute to securing the needs of the agricultural season in the northern state, in addition to supporting the residential sector.
The two sides agreed to accelerate the completion of the second phase of the Egyptian-Sudanese electricity interconnection project and increase its capacity to 300 megawatts to 1,000 megawatts, in addition to cooperation in the rehabilitation of networks, generating stations and transformers that have been damaged during the past period.
The talks also included the training and qualification of Sudanese teams and cooperation in solar and wind energy projects.
For his part, the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Dr. Mahmoud Esmat, affirmed his country's continued support for Sudan and readiness to provide the necessary expertise, equipment and training to contribute to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the electricity sector, stressing the depth of historical relations between the two countries and peoples.
The Minister of Energy appreciated the Egyptian position, stressing that the results of the talks will strengthen efforts to stabilize the electricity supply and rehabilitate the energy infrastructure in Sudan.