Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

• Energy in Egypt
• Egyptian Electricity Holding Company
• Cabinet of Egypt
• Aswan Dam