As many as 12 local and foreign companies are bidding in a tender launched by the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to build a 200 MW solar plant in the West Nile Delta, the local press reports, quoting unnamed sources. The company’s include the UAE’s Masdar and Alcazar Energy, Saudi Arabia’s Al Fanar, Acwa Power, and Abdul Latif Jameel, Lekela Egypt, Alcazar, Orascom Construction, and France’s EDF Renewables. The tender was originally for a 600 MW project, but the EETC decided to split it into several parts.