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CEO, Sabah Mashali on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mashali further said, if there is a surplus of electrical capacities in the line between the Saudi Arabia and Egypt, they will be utilised to connect with neighboring countries and export electricity to them.<\/p>\n<p>Masalhi\u2019s statement to Bloomberg came hours after Standard Chartered Bank, in cooperation with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, announced a $566.4 million funding arrangement for Saudi Electricity Company to facilitate the project.<\/p>\n<p>The project has signed in October 2021 were the two countries was awarded the project for three alliances of international and local companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt-Saudi Power Interconnection project is set to begin its first trial operations by May 2025, while the official operation will begin in two phases with a project capacity of 3,000 megawatts (MW).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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