Italcementi’s ItalGen plans to increase its Production Capacity

Egypt: An official source in the ministry of electricity revealed that ItalGen, one of Italcementi Group affiliates, is planning to build a 200 Megawatt wind-power station, to increase its capacity to 320 MW. The cost of plant will be around US$220m. The project will be the first privately-built wind power plant to supply energy to plants of Suez Cement, an Italcementi subsidiary. The production capacity for the first phase would be 120MW, which would increase to 400MW in the future.