During today’s government meeting at its headquarters in New Alamein City, headed by Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Eng. Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, presented a report on the capabilities and plans of the national grid system for generating electricity with various types of energy, including renewable energy.
The Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy reviewed the development of loads on the national electricity grid, and the maximum load rates it reached as a result of consumption, especially during the current summer, noting that it reached its peak on July 22, when loads reached 38 gigabytes.
The Minister touched on the coordination taking place between the Ministries of Electricity and Renewable Energy, and Petroleum and Mineral Resources, to stop the load shedding plan that began on July 20, 2024 and continues until September 15, 2024, which includes providing the necessary quantities of diesel and natural gas and providing strategic balances of it to confront any heat waves or emergency situations.
Eng. Mahmoud Esmat also discussed the measures taken by the ministry to support and modernize the electricity grid in the field of electricity transmission lines, developing transformer stations, control centers, as well as the status of lands allocated, currently allocated and currently under study, to implement new and renewable energy projects. The Minister explained that the targeted production capacity of renewable energy projects under construction and in the future amounts to about 45 thousand megawatts, noting that the total current capacities of renewable energy installed from wind and solar amounts to about 4.6 gigawatts, while the current capacities of hydroelectric power reach 2832 megawatts. The Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy also reviewed the status of projects under construction planned to enter before the summer of 2025, as well as the status of projects under construction subject to completing procedures and planned to enter during the year 2026/2027, in addition to projects with large capacities of up to 28 gigawatts of wind energy, for which memoranda of understanding and agreements have been signed to make land available and implement measurements.
