{"id":38404,"date":"2026-06-30T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38404"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:58:36","slug":"egypt-moves-to-step-up-fuel-supply-ahead-of-rise-in-power-demand-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypt-moves-to-step-up-fuel-supply-ahead-of-rise-in-power-demand-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt moves to step up fuel supply ahead of rise in power demand this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Electricity and Petroleum Ministers met\u00a0 this Tuesday to coordinate fuel supply and \u200bgrid management ahead of a summer in \u200cwhich power demand is expected to rise 8% over last year&#8217;s record peak of 40 000 megawatts, according \u200bto a joint Ministry statement.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity Minister Mahmoud \u200bEsmat and Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi said \u2060the two Ministries were working as &#8220;one team&#8221; to \u200bsecure fuel supplies for power stations and stabilise \u200bthe national grid during peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>Esmat said the electricity sector planned to add 2 200 MW of renewable energy \u200bcapacity and 1 300 MW of battery storage \u200bto the grid this year, and had already cut fuel \u200cconsumption \u2060per kilowatt to below 170 grams.<\/p>\n<p>Badawi said that LNG regasification vessels were operating at high efficiency to supplement gas production, while the Damietta \u200bLNG export terminal \u200bwas \u2060being used to store LNG cargoes to be used when needed.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt suffered \u200bsevere rolling blackouts in 2023 and \u200bhad to \u2060rely on foreign funding to stabilise its grid in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s gas production stood at 3 214 million cubic \u2060meters \u200bin April, while imports \u200bwere 2 190 million cubic meters, according to the Joint Organizations Data \u200bInitiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-38404","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Egypt suffered \u200bsevere rolling blackouts in 2023 and \u200bhad to \u2060rely on foreign funding to stabilise its grid in 2024.","published_date":"","news_description":"Egypt suffered \u200bsevere rolling blackouts in 2023 and \u200bhad to \u2060rely on foreign funding to stabilise its grid in 2024.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38405,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38404\/revisions\/38405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}