- Independent Power Producer (IPP) Lekela Power is bringing its West Bakr wind farm in Egypt into commercial operation.
- The 250MW facility was built by Siemens Gamesa, a Spanish-based wind turbine manufacturer.
The independent power producer (IPP), a joint venture between British investment fund Actis and Mainstream Renewable Power, brings its West Bakr wind farm in the Gulf of Suez in Egypt into commercial operation. The project, now in the operational phase, was implemented under a Build, Own and Operate (BOO) contract, a form of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) signed between Lekela and the Egyptian government.
IPP awarded the construction of its wind farm to Siemens Gamesa, a wind turbine manufacturer majority-owned by Germany’s Siemens Energy Group. The company based in Zamudio (Spain) has installed 96 wind turbines, 30km from Ras Ghareb, in the Gulf of Suez. The work lasted almost two years. The wind farm has an installed capacity of 250MW, with an annual production capacity of 1,000GWh. This electricity will be sold to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) under a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).