Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company has awarded a contract to the consortium consisting of Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Hassan Allam Construction to build the new National Energy Control Centre in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt.
The country’s new power grid control centre will deploy advanced software and equipment to monitor, manage and control extra-high voltage (220kV and 500kV) transmission networks and power generation stations across Egypt.
The necessary technologies will be included in the new control center for future grid expansion while maintaining secure energy supply, including intermittent renewable energy sources and storage. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
Officials from Egyptian Electricity Transmission, Siemens and Hassan Allam Construction signed the contract, valued more than 45 million Euros, at a ceremony in Cairo on December 8, 2020.
The new National Energy Control Centre situated in the new Administrative Capital of Egypt, and the backup control center located in Giza, will run on Siemens Spectrum Power 7, the company’s flagship control center platform for transmission management in energy networks. The high-performance platform comprises a wide range of applications for grid monitoring and supervisory control, load and wind or solar power generation forecasting, network analysis and optimization, cross-optimized thermal and hydro generation scheduling as well as generation dispatch and control.
This project further strengthens the close and successful cooperation between Egypt and Siemens to modernize the country’s electricity sector, after the joint development of the master plan for the Egyptian transmission network and the outstanding implementation of Siemens Megaproject that added 14.4 GW of power generation capacity to the network in record time.
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company currently operates a total of four control centers from Siemens to monitor and control the regional transmission networks of Cairo and Alexandria, in addition to the recently inaugurated Upper and Middle Egypt regional control centers. Additionally, two Siemens’ control centers are in operation at the distribution networks of North and South Delta Electricity Distribution Companies.
The scope also includes the construction of a prestigious building in the new Administrative Capital of Egypt to host the new National Control Centre, including electro-mechanical works and all-auxiliary services.
Change in Capital City
In 2015, the Government of Egypt decided to relocate the capital from Cairo to a new city, 35km east of the famous metropolis, due to rapid population growth. Works, valued at $58 billion and with an envisaged completion of five years, on the New Administrative City (NAC) got underway in 2017.
