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Sherif El-Din
Energy & Environment Reporter
Reports on energy and the environment — solar and wind capacity, the electricity grid, natural gas and its role in both the domestic supply and the export accounts, water scarcity and climate adaptation. The beat measures the transition by electricity actually consumed from renewable generation across a full year, including still evenings, rather than by installed capacity, because the second number is easy to announce and the first is what changes a bill.
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign oil and gas cooperation deal in Riyadh
Egypt's petroleum minister and Saudi Arabia's energy minister signed a memorandum of understanding in Riyadh to expand cooperation on oil, gas and petrochemicals trade and infrastructure.
13 Oct 2026
Egypt and Fujairah incorporate a joint oil-trading company at New Alamein
Egypt and the UAE emirate of Fujairah completed the incorporation of Fujairah Alamein for Oil and Gas S.A.E. on 1 September. It will run a 737,915 square metre free zone for storing and trading crude at El-Hamra Petroleum Port.
4 Sept 2026
Egypt's exports to China nearly tripled in H1 2026, but the deficit still widened
Egyptian exports to China nearly tripled to $840.8m in the first half of 2026, CAPMAS figures show, but imports from China rose by more in dollar terms. Two Chinese manufacturers announced $167m of Egyptian plant investment around Xi Jinping's Cairo visit.
4 Sept 2026
PRO TECHnology named Marabu's Middle East ink distributor, stocks UV lines in Dubai
PRO TECHnology became Marabu's official Middle East distributor on 21 January 2024, stocking the German ink maker's UV and UV-LED inkjet lines, primers and coatings in Dubai.
3 Sept 2026
Egypt and Oman Explore Linking Free Zones to Reach Asian Markets
Egypt's investment minister and the chairman of Oman's free-zones authority met on 31 August 2026 to explore integrating their special economic zones, so Egyptian manufacturers could finish production in Oman and re-export to Asia.
3 Sept 2026
Photograph every reading, replace meters in 72 hours: Egypt tightens the rules on electricity bills
Acting on presidential directives, the electricity minister ordered photographed meter readings, national price standardisation and weekly billing reports — consumer-trust plumbing for the grid.
31 Aug 2026
The Huawei-backed battery plan is real — and covers barely a third of what Egypt’s grid needs
A 4 GWh storage programme with local manufacturing, financed in pounds, is on the electricity minister’s desk. Egypt’s 2028 target is 14.3 GWh — and renewables are about to triple.
31 Aug 2026
Egypt lands COP18: the world’s desertification summit comes to the Sahara’s doorstep in 2028
A unanimous vote in Ulaanbaatar gives Egypt the UNCCD’s 2028 conference — with a former Egyptian environment minister already running the convention itself.
31 Aug 2026
Egypt has now armoured 120km of its coast — against a sea that is coming for far more
From Alexandria to Port Said, completed protection works cover 120km of a 3,500km coastline, with the World Bank putting climate losses to tourism at up to EGP 106bn by 2060.
31 Aug 2026
Cairo Water Week returns in October, and the arithmetic behind it has not softened
Egypt is preparing the ninth Cairo Water Week for 25–29 October. Behind the conference is a constraint that shapes agriculture, energy and urban planning alike.
30 Aug 2026