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An 52million (LE) energy control centre built in Nile Delta

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The stations’ developments in the Nile delta areas will assist in locating and tracking the regions experiencing power cuts.

The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) announced a regional control centre project to be built in the Nile Delta. The Minister of Electricity Ahmed Emam said, on 14 October, that the project will cost Egypt EGP 52m and takes priority among the ministry’s projects.

The Delta project seeks for the safe and economic production of 66 KV of electricity and aims to lessen the power pressure and cut the number of outages. It will also assist in locating and tracking the areas experiencing power cuts as well as identifying the causes for the outage.

The minister said that the project will be under the supervision of the National Energy Control Centre adding that the implementation process has already started, as 4 stations located in Cairo, Alexandria, West Delta and Canal areas, were developed and two other stations in the governorate of Qena.

In another statement, the minister pointed out that the projects to be implemented during the next five years will cost EGP2.242 bl. Eleven power stations are to be built during the same period and will produce 4600 MVA.

Another project announced by the ministry in September was the Helwan power station. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said that it will help finance the project, which will cost around EGP14bn.

International institutions such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) as well as state-owned Upper Egypt Electricity Production Company (UEEPC), will also contribute to financing the Helwan station.

Earlier this month, the ministry denied accusations of corruption leveled against it by former Petroleum Minister Osama Kamal during an interview with state-owned Al-Ahram in which he said that an “electricity mafia” with ties to the MOEE had imported 31 used power stations as new ones.

Aktham Abou El-Ela, MOEE spokesman, said that all the power stations built during the previous period were compliant with the latest technical specifications adding that the ministry has not received any complaints from the companies using these power stations.

Source: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/10/1 ... ile-delta/


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Re: An 52million (LE) energy control centre built in Nile De

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Presumably the 5 new power stations will run on gas and a lot of gas needs to be imported or, less likely, found and developed. On the other hand they might by run on oil but that would be beyond belief. Maybe it is not beyond belief because OPEC is paying for some of the new building.

The accusation of the illegal importation and installation of 31 (thats a very large number when compared with this announcement of 5 or 11 or 16) power stations seems to be true if you read the Ministry's response to this accusation. The response is not a denial of the accusation so it seems confirmed by the Ministry that there was corruption by the Ministry.

Its both unfair and vain to pick government press releases (printed undigested) but it is a bit fun. For example the control center, which doesn't generate power, costs 52m. 6 new power stations are to be built.There may be another 11 or 5 built over the next 5 years costing in total 2.2b for the 11 or 16.

The whale in the room is the Helwan project costing 14 billion and producing an undisclosed amount of power with an undisclosed start or finish date. How do you get a s*** load of LNG or oil from the coast to Helwan to make the power.

All of the above is very nice for his excellency with finish dates well into the future or not mentioned. The true picture is not about bold new initiatives because independent reports (being lazy -can find if needed) that the major problems are consumption and infrastructure. On consumption the current subsidy system rewards waste and benefits the middle classes over the poor (not may a/cs). Whole industries receive electricity subsidies but a breakdown of these figures is never published. Needless to say the army factories have a big stake in the taxpayer funding their electricity usage. The other problem is infrastructure with loss of current through old wires and poles and many illegal connections. Dealing with these issues would involve few grand announcements to the press and require hard work and firm direction.

One thing the Government could do would be to sell millions of subsidized low energy globes, impose large sales tax on all high energy home and commercial machinery/appliances to reduce consumption, fix up the shambles of a distribution system before starting to pump out new and expensive electricity capacity along frayed wires. Not too many good news stories in that and depressingly few contracts to award to friends. Its an old story but a true one, don't fix up or admit a disaster use it as a hidden foundation for something bigger and shinier to distract the viewer.

You might ask about the subsidy to industry but if any government wanted to force industry to pay for its power it would soon end up in Tora and you could probably expect a 22 million signature petition to justify it.
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