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Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Egypt) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 30°4′15″N 31°17′22″E / 30.07083°N 31.28944°E

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Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy
Agency overview
وزارة الكهرباء والطاقة المتجددة
Emblem of Egypt
Jurisdiction	Government of Egypt
Headquarters	New Administrative Capital, Cairo Governorate 30°4′15″N 31°17′22″E / 30.07083°N 31.28944°E / 30.07083; 31.28944
Agency executive	Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi, Minister
Website	www.moee.gov.eg

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.

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

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

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
#	Name	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

References

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

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
Vice Prime Ministers Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Ministry of Civil Aviation Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ministry of Culture Ministry of Education and Higher Education Ministry of Electricity and Energy Ministry of State for the Environment Affairs Ministry of Finance Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Health and Population Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Governor - Central Bank of Egypt Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority	Yehia El-Gamal (resigned); Ali El Selmi Hazem El Beblawi Ayman Farid Abu-Hadid Zahi Hawass^† Ibrahim Manna Magued Osman Emad Badr El-Din Mahmoud Abu Ghazy Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa Hassan Younes Maged George^† Samir Radwan Mohamed Kamel Amr Ashraf Hatem Mohamed Fathy El-Baradei Farouk Abd El Baky El Okdah Ahmed Ali Fadel^†	2011 2011 2011-March 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2004 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 1996	Ministry of Interior Ministry of Justice Ministry of State for Local Development Ministry of Manpower and Migration Ministry of State for Military Production Ministry of Petroleum and Metallurgical Wealth Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Ministry of Scientific Research, Science and Technology Ministry of Social Solidarity and Justice Ministry of Tourism Ministry of Trade and Industry Ministry of Transportation Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Minister without portfolio; GID Chief Permanent Representative to the United Nations	Mansour el-Essawy Mohamed Abdel Aziz Ibrahim El-Gendy Mohsen El-Nomani Mohamed Hafez^† Ahmed Hassan El-Boraei Ahmed Al-Boraei^† Sayed Meshaal Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Abdel Menim Ghorab^† Faiza Abou el-Naga Abd Alla Al-Husseni Ahmed Helal Amr Ezzat Salama Gouda Abdel Khalek^† Monir Fakhry Abdel Nour Samir El-Sayiad Atef Abdel Hamid Moustafa Hussien Ehsan Al-Atfy Murad Muwafi Maged A. Abdelaziz	2011 2011 2006 2005 2011 1999 2011 2011 2011 2005 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011

^† Remained from previous administration. Below blank line: Granted Cabinet-level rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet.

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