Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker said that the Arab Executive Office of the Ministers of Electricity 31st meeting discusses the Arab electricity network.
The Arab leaders pay great attention to the Arab power grid that has great economic feasibility, the minister added.
Egypt suffered last year the need of 5,000 megawatts, said the minister, adding that if the Arab power grid was in place Egypt could have used 3,000 megawatts from the Saudi power network.
Egypt-Saudi power network will come on stream in 2017-2018, he noted.
The peaceful use of nuclear energy including power generation and water desalination needs to be boosted, the minister said, adding that water, electricity and food production domains are very much related.
On the other hand, Shaker held yesterday a meeting with the ministry’s key figures and heads of the electricity-distributing companies to set the prices that would be amended as of next August in response to the call launched by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi not to badly affect the first three brackets while pushing up the electricity prices.
