{"id":306190,"date":"2019-12-18T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306190"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:04:48","slug":"giant-solar-park-in-the-desert-jump-starts-egypts-renewables-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/giant-solar-park-in-the-desert-jump-starts-egypts-renewables-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant solar park in the desert jump starts Egypt&#8217;s renewables push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASWAN, Egypt: Near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, a swathe of photovoltaic solar panels spreads over an area of desert so large it is clearly visible from space.<\/p>\n<p>They are part of the Benban plant, one of the world&#8217;s largest solar parks following completion last month of a second phase of the estimated $2.1 billion project.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to anchor a renewable energy sector by attracting foreign and domestic private-sector developers and financial backers, the plant now provides nearly 1.5 GW to Egypt&#8217;s national grid and has brought down the price of solar energy at a time when the government is phasing out electricity subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASWAN, Egypt: Near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, a swathe of photovoltaic solar panels spreads over an area of desert so large it is clearly visible from space. They are part of the Benban plant, one of the world&#8217;s largest solar parks following completion last month of a second phase of the estimated $2.1 billion project. Designed to anchor a renewable energy sector by attracting foreign and domestic private-sector developers and financial backers, the plant now provides nearly 1.5 GW to Egypt&#8217;s national grid and has brought down the price of solar energy at a time when the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}