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| Egypt weighs providing all Gaza's power |
| 2008-02-29 |
| Egypt is working on a plan with the Palestinians to supply all the besieged Gaza Strip's electricity needs and wean off its reliance on Israel for power, an Egyptian energy official said Thursday. Under the plan, Egypt - which already supplies a small part of Gaza's electricity - would increase the number of power lines linking it to Gaza and provide Palestinians with some 250 megawatts, said Izzat Ibrahim, a senior official of Sinai's National Electricity Power Co. "This capacity is considered as an alternative power for that Israel used to supply," Ibrahim said. He said Egypt's Electricity Ministry was preparing a study with the Palestinian Authority on financing the project and providing equipment to Gaza. The project would take at least six months to implement, he said, though he could not say when it would start. An official at the ministry confirmed that Egypt was exploring means of providing all of Gaza's electricity needs. The official would not give a time-frame for the project. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 How long before they declare that circumstances require a nuclear power plant for the purpose? |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-02-29 09:23 |
| #4 "He said Egypt's Electricity Ministry was preparing a study with the Palestinian Authority on financing the project and providing equipment to Gaza." And then he laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and... |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-02-29 09:07 |
| #3 If Egypt is interested, I am sure Israel would be willing to give them a deal on the whole Gaza strip. All Egypt would have to do is take responsibility for them. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-02-29 08:59 |
| #2 Egypt is calculating that they can get the EU to come up with the funds for the generation capacity and also the funds for the operation and also that they'll be able to skim money and KWH from the project. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-02-29 07:38 |
| #1 Better start your cost estimations with the customary graft, corruption, pet projects (like Kassam missiles), "retirement" funds, etc. for all your Sort of like the US, except there they like to call it "earmarks" (or you can save a syllable and call it "pork" if you don't care about being PC). Then throw in a bit more for use on the actual project. Oh, and don't forget that you'll need nukes to generate all that extra electricity. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-02-29 06:14 |