Egypt and Saudi Arabia will link their electricity grids starting in early 2019, New and Renewable Energy Authority chief Mohamed El Sobky told Amwal Al Ghad. Both countries are set to benefit from the project due to a difference in peak usage hours, he added. There’s a direction in the energy sector leaning towards connecting with African countries through expanding Egyptian-African partnerships in renewable energy projects, he said. The ministry is preparing feasibility, technical, and economical studies on interconnection projects with the Nile Basin countries, he said, noting that they will be complete within a year.