Francesco La Camera — Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) — told Daily News Egypt (DNE) that storage technology will be a priority in the coming period to ensure flexibility and balance in the renewable energy (...)
Mohamed Shaker, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, inaugurated on Tuesday a solar power plant, with a production capacity of 10 GW/h annually, at the Chinese Jushi's fibreglass factory in the North-West Gulf of Suez Economic Zone, Ain (...)
Giza Systems won a tender on Sunday to implement smart transportation and traffic systems in the New Administrative Capital (NAC).
Engineer Mohamed Khalil — Head of the Technology and Systems Sector at the Administrative Capital for Urban (...)
Representatives of the UAE's KK Power International and Australian Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) expressed their desire to invest in renewable energy and green hydrogen in Egypt during the coming period.
Moataz Kandil, regional director of FFI (...)
The Ministry of Electricity aims to collect EGP 500m per month from charging electric vehicles (cars, buses, and trains), within the government's direction to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and preserve the environment, according to an official at (...)
The Egyptian government launched a plan to rationalize gas consumption in electricity plants to save foreign currency and achieve financial returns from gas export.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that the plan has started since last October, (...)
The Egyptian government will launch a tender for the construction of a solar power plant at Sharm El-Sheikh Museum on 15 August.
A source in the government told Daily News Egypt that the project's contracts will be awarded within a week, with the (...)
Egyptian electricity consumers received the highest power bills this year due to the increased consumption of mainly ACs and fans, due to the high temperatures.
Informed sources told Daily News Egypt that the consumption bills for July increased by (...)
Egypt's production of hydropower decreased in FY2021/22 by about 6% to reach 13,800 GWh, compared to FY2020/21's 14,700 GWh.
FY2019/20 was Egypt's best year in terms of producing hydropower, as production reached 15,000 GWh, and it was a big jump in (...)
A total of 315 Egyptian companies applied to participate in the construction of the local component of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant, Amgad El-Wakeel, Chairperson of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA), told Daily News Egypt.
He added that (...)
Egypt has developed an integrated strategy to direct its electricity surplus to projects that achieve added value to the Egyptian economy and enhance Egypt's position on the Arab and international levels.
Egypt participates in an initiative for (...)
Thanks to ongoing reforms in the mining sector and investment climate, in general, several Egyptian companies turned to invest in gold exploration and extraction.
Akh Gold, a subsidiary of Altus Strategies, signed a $4.1m agreement with the Egyptian (...)
Over the past years, Egypt has been suffering from an increase in pollution, which prompted the government to take a package of measures to prevent the crisis from worsening and preserve the environment.
According to World Bank estimates, the (...)
The Ecomondo and Key Energy Conference and Exhibition that is being by the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) will be held from 8 to 11 November in Rimini.
The event will focus on the green transformation in Africa and ways to reduce emissions through (...)
Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker told Daily News Egypt that work is underway on the electrical interconnection project with Saudi Arabia to exchange 3,000 MW at a cost of $1.8bn, adding that the project is set to be (...)
Siemens Egypt signed an agreement with Al-Attal Holding and Sigma for smart cities to establish the first residential complex in the New Administrative Capital (NAC) to use AI and metaverse technology to reduce operating costs, raise maintenance (...)
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) announced this week that it aims to increase the amount of purchased energy by 33%, as it intends to acquire a capacity of 210.8bn kWh in the upcoming FY.
This is compared to the 157.7bn kWh (...)
A high-level Egyptian delegation from the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), the Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA), and the Industrial Modernization Centre visited Tunisia to learn about its experience in solar heating (...)
Triple M plans to take over the work of projects producing electricity from renewable energy with a capacity of 1.5 GW inside and outside of Egypt.
The projects in question have a power distribution of 1,000 MW of solar energy and about 500 MW of (...)
The Ministry of Electricity considers a flexible policy for pricing according to electricity consumption segments every six months based on production costs.
A source in the Ministry of Electricity told Daily News Egypt that the electricity sector (...)
The Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) studies the establishment of small, peaceful nuclear reactors to produce electricity with a minimum capacity of 10 megawatts and a maximum of 300 megawatts.
The NPPA conducts other studies, including the (...)
German company Siemens is working on a roadmap for emerging energy technologies, electric vehicles, and energy storage in Egypt.
Informed sources told Daily News Egypt that the project is funded by the French company EDF, and it is scheduled to (...)
The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has handed over 2,500 km of land to other government agencies.
Amgad Al-Huwaihi, Head of Studies, Research and Tests Sector at the Renewable Energy Authority and head of the Land Handover Committee, told (...)
The Ministry of Agriculture will begin testing newly derived wheat mutations inside the farms of the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority in Anshas next August, according to Mohamed Ayyad, a genetics lecturer at the Atomic Energy Authority.
Officials of (...)
The Egyptian government notified the companies that signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) to establish hydrogen and green ammonia projects that they should complete their feasibility studies within five months, provided that a framework agreement (...)