Mohamed Shaker, the Minister of Electricity and Renewable energy handed a massive operation that aims to turn around 27 million electricity meters into prepaid ones, to the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI), El Sewedy Electric, Iskraemeco, Electro Meter Corporation (EMC), El Maasara Company and Global Company.

The projects’ capacity is 130 megawatt peak (MWp), with estimated annual 290-gigawatt per hour (GWh) of electricity produced by both projects, which will power more than 140,000 households while avoiding more than 120,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year.

The Ministry of Electricity will announce on June 13 the winning consortium to build the 6,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the Red Sea port of Hamrawein.

Egypt's El Sewedy Electric and Infinity Solar submitted bids to build 30MW and 250MW solar power plants in Kenya.

The Egyptian Electricity Ministry signed a $252.82m agreement with Siemens to build 6 power transmission stations.

Egypt's Electricity Minister, Mohamed Shaker, met with Siemens executives to discuss the electricity grid master plan, which aims to strengthen and develop the electricity network in Egypt until 2025.

The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Resources completed reviewing bids from seven companies that submitted tenders to supply 250,000 smart electricity meters.

Italy’s Enel Green Power has decided to withdraw its investments from the renewable energy market in Egypt and seek the compensations for the investments that were already injected in the sector.

Japanese trading house Marubeni and Egyptian electric equipment manufacturer El Sewedy Electric have agreed with Egypt's state-run electricity utility to conduct a feasibility study into the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Egypt.