Electricity
The minister added that the first phase is planned to work in the first quarter of the year.
Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable energy revealed that Sinai has witnessed a great and unprecedented boom in developing its electricity networks to be able to meet the needs of citizens and the national and investment projects that are being carried out for the first time on the land of Sinai.
As a result, Egypt advanced 44 places in the electricity supply quality index in the Global Competitiveness Report in 2019.
A set of measures had been taken, including implementing an urgent plan, completing some stations that were under construction, raising the efficiency of generating stations and contracting to implement three giant generating stations.
The amount of megawatts added to the Egyptian grid since 2014 is 14 times those produced by Aswan High Dam (2,100 megawatts).
President Sisi directed the government to meet these demands as quickly as possible.
Shaker referred to the efforts made by the electricity sector to support the transmission network on various efforts; To improve the efficiency of the network and reduce losses to be able to transfer sustainable electric energy from all production sources to all customers, in accordance with international standards through institutional work that adopts the economic operation of production stations, quality policies, optimal use of resources and assets, and preservation of the environment.
An amount of 9 billion pounds has been allocated to develop electricity transmission and distribution networks in North and South Sinai.
Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy stated that the total capacity generated from new and renewable energy (including solar and wind) on the national grid will reach 10,000 megawatts by the year 2023.
Egypt-based Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) has established a solar power plant in Tororo district in Ughanda as part of Egypt’s keenness to support relations with its brother countries in the Nile Basin area.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said that electricity linkage with Greece and Cyprus is getting Egypt close to linkage with Europe.
Also, Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram signed MoUs with both countries.
He added that the quantities of gas consumption of homes are targeted to reach 7 percent during the next fiscal year as a result of the intensification of projects to deliver natural gas to homes.
Thousands of jobs will be available at Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, whose capacity amounts to 4,800 megawatts, and many more opportunities will be provided indirectly, said Amgad al-Wakil, head of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority on Monday.
The contracts, which were signed simultaneously between Riyadh and Cairo, included contracts with three consortiums of international and local companies to implement the connection project, which has a capacity of 3,000 megawatts, with a 500 kV HVDC technology.
Egypt is implementing electrical interconnection projects in the coming period, with capacity of approximately 9 thousand megawatts.
Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum Tarek El Molla voiced hope that the country can soon export gas to Jordan to help supply Lebanon with electricity.
Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said, stressed that electric energy is the mainstay for comprehensive development, as all industrial, agricultural, tourism, urban, and service sectors depend on it to operate their facilities and generate added value.
Egypt succeeded over the past period to generate electrical power for Libya through existing projects.
Cairo will send Egyptian natural gas to Jordan so that it can produce extra quantities of electricity and add them to the grid linking Jordan with Lebanon via Syria, a statement by the Lebanese Presidency revealed.
