During a recent meeting with Mostafa Kamal Madbouly, the Prime Minister of Egypt, and Mohamed Shaker, the Electricity and Renewable Energy Minister, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for the acceleration of the implementation of ongoing projects on extensions of power supply lines to Sinai.
The projects in question will connect the electricity network in Sinai to the Egyptian Electrical Unified Network (EEUN) in order to transfer the electric power required to meet the needs of the integrated national project for the development of the Peninsula.
In a statement, the Presidential Spokesman Bassam Radi said that the meeting focused on a number of projects carried out by the Electricity Ministry nationwide as part of the “Decent Life” presidential initiative to develop villages.
El-Sisi said that all technical and construction works related to the “Decent Life” Initiative, should be conducted with the help of major consulting firms, to ensure that the performance and implementation levels are in line with modern standards for all sectors and stages of the initiative.
Other project discussed at the meeting
Along with the projects on extensions of power supply lines to Sinai, the meeting also took up the latest developments related to El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, in addition to power interconnection projects with neighboring countries, including Libya.
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It also reviewed the National Hydrogen Strategy that aims at using hydrogen for renewable energy storage and as a fuel for transportation and followed up on the executive procedures for upgrading the existing electricity infrastructure within the framework of the first phase of the national project to improve the quality of life in the countryside.
Furthermore, the meeting also addressed cooperation with a number of African countries in the field of floating power plants (FPPs), which aim at providing a fast supply of electricity to the involved countries.
