Electricity min. meets US delegation to discuss cooperation

CAIRO– 19 October 2017: Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker met Thursday with Deputy Head of the mission of the US Embassy in Cairo Dorothy Shea and her accompanying delegation to discuss current and future cooperation between both countries.

The meeting comes within the ministry's efforts to implement a number of projects in the electricity and renewable energy fields.

The minister praised the deep-rooted relations between Egypt and the US, in addition to the cooperation between the Egyptian General Electric company and the US to carry out electricity projects with a capacity of 2000 megawatts of electricity, as well as three power plants in cooperation with French Alstom company to generate a capacity of 3500 megawatts of electricity.

Shaker also discussed means to increase investments of private sector in the electricity and renewable energy sectors.

In addition, he briefed the delegation on the ministry's efforts to enhance the capacity of generating electricity and diversify resources of renewable energy.

He also underlined the political leadership's support to overcome the challenges facing the electricity and renewable energy sectors during the past period and achieve stability of the national electricity network, as well as taking measures to cover the gap between the demand and supply of electricity.