Egypt has ended a year-long load shedding programme which started way back in July 2023, this portal can confirm.
The one-year load shedding affected businesses and households, with some finding alternative means to keep their businesses running.
Electricity consumption in Egypt saw an unprecedented rise due to the consequent heatwaves across the country.
In July, this year, daily consumption rate exceeded 37.5 gigawatts, up by more than 12 per cent compared to the previous year.
However, addressing a press conference on Thursday, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told the nation that power outages would not reoccur as the necessary shipments had been secured to ensure uninterrupted supply.
Madbouly said government had allocated LE 7 billion to the Ministry of Electricity to ensure the implementation of energy projects.
He mentioned the prosecution of around 513,771 electricity theft cases, saying: “If half of these thefts did not exist, there would be no [electricity supply] problems again.”
Madbouly said Egypt would be able to restore normal gas production rate from the Zohr field as before the global economic crisis before the end of June.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
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