Bids to Build a Safaga Electricity Substation Come In at 963 Million Pounds

The leading bids in the tender for a new electricity transformer station at Safaga stand at 963 million Egyptian pounds, according to youlyou.com, which reports two contractors at the front of the bidding.

That is as far as the reporting goes. There is no award date, no construction timetable, no stated capacity for the station and no indication of when it would feed power into the grid.

Substation capacity is what decides whether the grid on this coast holds up under load, and it has been a live complaint locally: Hurghada residents spent the summer reporting repeated cuts and swinging voltage. Until this tender is actually awarded, though, the 963 million pounds is a figure on a bid sheet and nothing more.