State-run Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) and the German engineering company Siemens have completed the construction of the Toshka 220 kV air-insulated substation, a significant move forward for the realisation of the upcoming Egypt-Sudan power interconnection project. It is now connected to the grid and will dispatch around 400 MW of electricity to secure reliable power transmission between the two countries.
Siemens was responsible for the engineering, manufacturing and delivering of key components for the substation. The project spans across 170 km between the cities of Toshka (Egypt) and Dongola (Sudan). It is being developed in the framework of the North-South Power Transmission Corridor, an 8,000 km long power connection project which will spread from Egypt through Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe to South Africa. Once built, it will connect the East African and Southern African Power Pools (EAPP and SAPP) and in particular transmit the power generated by the Great Renaissance dam in Ethiopia.