Business Green: The Egyptian electricity ministry has unveiled plans to build a new $700m 100MW solar power plant between 2012 and 2017 that should further establish the country as one of the leading developers of utility-scale solar plants. According to reports in the local Al-Ahram newspaper, the solar power project at Kom Ombo, near the Aswan High Dam hydroelectric plant, will be financed by a number of international institutions, including the African Development Fund and the World Bank. …