Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Egypt)

The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt is the government ministry in charge of managing and regulating the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Egypt. Its headquarters are in Cairo. The current minister is Mohamed Shaker.[1] The ministry was established in 1964 with presidential decree No. 147.

Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy
وزارة الكهرباء والطاقة المتجددة
Agency overview
Jurisdiction Egypt
HeadquartersCairo
Agency executive
WebsiteOfficial website

Electric power stations

An agreement was made with Siemens, a German company, to implement power stations in Beni Suef, the New Administrative Capital, and Borollos by mid 2018.[2]

High dams
Main article: Aswan Dam

The Aswan Dam, inaugurated in 1971, "can generate 10 billion kilowatt-hours annually.".[3]

A new high dam to pump and store water to produce electricity in Ataka was in the works in mid 2017 in conjunction with Sinohydro, a Chinese company.[2][4]

Nuclear power plant

In 2015, Egypt began negotiations with Russian company Rosatom, for building a nuclear power plant in Dabaa and by the end of 2016, the ministry and the company were in their final negotiations on the deal.[5][6] By 2017, negotiations were completed.[2]

Petrol discovery
Ministry of Egypt and Eni

Eni, an Italian company is working on the large petrol field discovered in Egypt in 2015.[7]

Coal-fired plant

As anticipated a year before, in September, 2018, a 4.4 billion agreement was signed for the building of a 6.6 GW coal-power plant in Hamrawein, Egypt and would take at least six years to complete and become operational.[8][9] The project was mothballed in 2020.[10]

Ministers
# Name Term
Start End
1 Mohamed Ezzat Salama March, 1964 September, 1965
2 Mustafa Khalil October, 1965 September, 1966
3 Mahmoud Younis September, 1966 June, 1967
4 Mohammed Sidqi Suleiman June, 1967 March, 1968
5 Helmy Mohamed Saeed November, 1970 May, 1971
6 Ahmed Sultan September, 1974 April, 1975
7 Mustafa Kamal Sabri October, 1978 May, 1980
8 Mohamed Maher Abaza May, 1980 October, 1999
9 Dr. Saidi on October, 1999 November, 2001
10 Hassan Younis November, 2001 August, 2012
11 Mahmoud Saad Balbaa August, 2012 January, 2013
12 Ahmed Mustafa Imam January, 2013 February, 2014
13 Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi February, 2014 Incumbent

See also

References
  1. "BREAKING: New government swears in". Cairo Post. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  2. Farag, Mohamed (5 July 2017). "Egypt achieves electricity surplus after years of deficit". Daily News Egypt.
  3. "Aswan High Dam". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  4. "Egypt to Build 2,000MW Water-Pumping Power Station". egyptoil-gas.com. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. Fahmy, Omar; Alsharif, Asma; Baker, Luke; Lawson, Hugh (November 19, 2015). "Egypt, Russia sign deal to build a nuclear power plant". Reuters.
  6. Farag, Mohamed (December 8, 2016). "Electricity minister to send president memo on Dabaa negotiations next week". Daily News Egypt.
  7. Reed, Stanley (19 October 2016). "How Eni Bet Big and Won Big on Natural Gas off Egypt". NYT.
  8. "Chinese consortium wins contract for Hamrawein coal-fired plant". Energy Egypt.
  9. Farid, Doaa (17 October 2017). "Hamrawein coal plant contracts to be signed in mid-2018: Minister". Egypt Today. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  10. "Fate of Egypt's coal-fired project a sign of greener times". BusinessLIVE. April 16, 2020. Archived from the original on April 26, 2020.
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