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GE carries out $148m works for Egypt electricity ministry

CAIRO, April 24, 2016

General Electric (GE) has carried out $148 million worth of overhauls and maintenance work on production plants of the Ministry of Electricity over the past six months, a report said.

The operations included many production plants in Ataqa, El-Mahmudeya El-Nubareya, North Delta, and other production units, added the Daily News Egypt report.

“The ministry has developed a plan to implement replacement, renovation, and maintenance operations for the plants to save fuel and raise their efficiency, instead of building new plants, which are costly for the state,” a top official at the Ministry of Electricity was quoted as saying in the report.

“Work to use modern technology in the plants and convert them to work through the combined cycle system is underway in order to reduce fuel consumption,” the official added.

The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy is almost done with its preparations for summer 2016 as a government programme for the maintenance of plants is scheduled to be completed this month, the report said.

In 2015, the sector managed to overcome the crisis of the power outage, said Mohamed El-Youmani, the first undersecretary of the Electricity Ministry.

El-Youmani added that the ministry began its preparations for summer very early in order to increase the efficiency of the power production plants and add new electricity capacities, as well as develop the electricity transfer network to unload the capacities expected to be added to the projects, with the goal of developing and enhancing power efficiency.

He explained that the electricity transfer network was developed through transformers and lines of ultra-high voltage towers, 1,210 km in length, with EGP 12 billion ($1.34 billion) in investments over the period between summer 2015 and summer 2016.

“We continue to play our societal role through the distribution of LED lamps to citizens. These lamps save 90 per cent of energy compared to incandescent lamps. So far, about eight million lamps have been distributed,” El-Youmani explained.




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