Blackout remain sweeping Egyptian provinces (Photo: Al-Ahram)
Egypt's current electricity-generating capacity now exceeds national consumption, state news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
The state-run National Energy Control Centre (NECC) has announced that conservation methods, along with increased amounts of fuel supplied to the nation's power stations, has served to equalise the supply/demand ratio.
According to MENA, Electricity Minister Ahmed Emam has called on citizens to continue cooperating with the ministry by turning off unnecessary lighting and setting air conditioners to a maximum of 25 degrees, meaning that power cuts would no longer be necessary.
According to official data, Egypt's current daily electricity capacity stands at 24,000 megawatts, but this could reach some 27,000 megawatts.
Experts have recently said that three years would be required to end intermittent power outages if the government addressed the problem head-on and invested in new infrastructure.
Egypt has around 220 electricity generators nationwide, which consume roughly 100 million cubic metres of fuel per day.
Egypt will be granted five shipments of Qatari Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at the end of July to meet the country’s summertime energy needs, the Egyptian Petroleum Ministry stated on Monday.
The shipments are part of a gas-swap deal between Cairo and Doha, according to which Egypt will buy foreign companies' shares of locally extracted LNG. Foreign companies will then import their share of LNG from Qatar.
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