The Egyptian government promised to ensure the supply of fuel in order to avoid interruptions in the field of power supply in the country, while emphasizing the preparation of proactive scenarios to combat high temperatures during the summer months, after electricity witnesses of serious breaks last year, and then the government was forced to draw up a “load reduction plan”.
The Prime Minister of Egypt, Mustafa Madbuli, discussed at a meeting with electricity ministers by Mahmoud Esmat and oil Karim Badavi, on Sunday the coordination of the fuel provision process, in addition to discussing the executive position of new and renewable energy projects that are included in the national network.
Madbouly emphasized, according to the “cabinet”, the importance of the efforts made by the relevant ministries to ensure and increase oil supplies to ensure sustainability of power plants and the lack of a break in maintenance, especially in summer summer, as well as to increase the share of new and renewable energy in the energy mixture, to achieve energy consumption and economic operations of energy.
The Egyptian Minister of Oil emphasized the development of proactive scenarios to provide the necessary fuel with high temperatures during the summer months, indicating an increase in the efforts to ensure the supply of fuel at power plants to ensure the stability of the operation of stations and the daily monitoring of the courts that receive lipelized gas shipments for the envelope and pump them into the national network.
During the second meeting, on Sunday, in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Ahmed Kajuk Madbuli emphasized the financing management necessary to meet the necessary needs of oil products; In order to ensure the provision of electricity services to various sectors, having viewed the payment of the debt of the Ministry of Electricity regarding the consumption of electric current for a number of ministries and state institutions, as well as on the contributions of foreign partners to encourage them to pump up more investments.
Former CEO “Electricity Organization”, Hafes Salmawi, said Asharq al -AWSAT that the regularity of access to gas and fuel for power plants will ensure its ability to increase high -consumption production during the summer season, noting that the production capacities of power plants in Egypt exceed the country even in peak times.
He Added That Securing Gas Supplies to Power States and Using the “Booster” Ships to Divert LiquEd Gas and Pump Ito Intelligence Network, IS a Matter thatents Guarantees The Production of Electricity at a Lower Cost on the Government, Noting that Pressence of Plans and Alternatives with the Government to the States Thuts The Gas Supply Delay is a Matter that Helped to Avoid the Occurrence of the Crisis, Last Month, Despite to Stop The Gas Supply For Factories for Some Time.
Booser units and courts are floating stations that receive imported gas supplies and return them from a liquid image to their natural image suitable for direct consumption, when heating gas to return to its original state of gas, and it is ready to accumulate in storage systems or distribution networks.
A member of the “Energy Committee” in the Egyptian parliament (parliament), Bahjate al -San, believes that the government realizes what has already promised during the last period to avoid a crisis of electricity reduction even at high temperatures through proactive plans that included preparations for consumption in order to achieve its climax during the summer demand.
The sun added to ASHARQ Al -AWSAT that Egypt has an infrastructure in the electricity sector that can satisfy local needs and export excess through the networks of electrical connections, indicating the ongoing expansion of electricity production through renewable energy sources, which receives a requirement from the private sector to pump up investments in it.
The Ministry of Electricity is working on a change in the operating scheme, reducing the traditional fuel consumption, increasing performance and energy efficiency indicators and increasing dependence on renewable energy, adding 2000 megavatts from them to the combined national network to this summer, according to the statements of the Egyptian Minister of Electricity on Sunday.