The Egyptian Banban .. An international solar energy plant with a size of 50 soccer fields

On one of the pivots of the road in southern Egypt, the desert sands yellow color suddenly turns black, and this strip extends for several kilometers, towards the sun, where solar photovoltaic panels are spread along the horizon to generate electricity from solar energy in a dark gray color, as this project is Egypt's bet on the transformation To the energy of the future.

The "Banban" solar power plant is considered one of the largest renewable energy projects in the world, and it uses the most advanced technology in this field until now. The solar panels cover an area equivalent to fifty soccer fields, so much so that they are clearly seen from space.

Workers are accompanied by two concomitant elements: extreme heat and desert sand dust, where the summer temperature exceeds fifty degrees Celsius.

German Development Minister Gerd Muller explains that this huge plant - which appears from another world - is preparing the next chapter for a success story called solar energy.

"We are still in the beginning of using solar energy, and we are not yet at the end. It is the beginning of a new era of solar energy renaissance in Africa, Asia and South America," Mueller told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Tom Hegarty, an analyst at British energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, believes that the solar boom will last for a while, depending in part on reasons including the fact that components have become cheaper.

It is worth noting that last November, the Panban solar plant became one of the largest solar energy complexes in the world after the completion of the second stage, with a value of two billion dollars.

This project is designed to anchor the renewable energy sector by attracting foreign and domestic private developers and financial supporters.

Currently, it provides approximately 1.5 gigawatts of electricity to the national grid in Egypt, and the project has led to a reduction in the price of solar energy, at a time when the government is shrinking electricity subsidies.

Electricity production capacity is currently estimated at about fifty gigawatts, and the country aims to increase the share of electricity that is available from renewable energy sources from a simple current to 20% by 2022, and 42% by 2035.