Dr. Mohammed Shaker, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, explained the efforts of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy with its various companies to raise the efficiency of the electrical grid and improve the level of performance in order to ensure the stability and continuity of electric feeding in accordance with the standards of quality in this regard and within the scope of the Qena sector of the Upper Egypt Electricity Distribution Company, which has about (901 thousand) subscribers From July 2014 to June 2020, expansion and replacement work was carried out to raise the efficiency of the electrical grid in the province and improve service for subscribers. Implementation of expansion and replacement work to raise the efficiency of the electrical network in the province and improve the service for subscribers where the implementation of the ambitious plan in the sector of Electricity Qena and financed by a loan from the state for the development of networks during the period july 2017 to June 2020 at a cost of 615 million pounds.
The self-plan was implemented during the period from July 2014 to June 2020 with a value of about 177 million pounds.
And about the plan to replace the antennas into ground cables the medium voltage antennas were replaced by ground cables from July 2017 to June 2020, with 78 operations with a total cable length of 39,861 km, a value of 42 million pounds.
About the projects (implemented for others) the company studied and implemented the projects required for others for the infrastructure of the electricity utility in the new cities of the Urban Communities Authority, and the nutrition of national projects for drinking water, sewage system, factories, schools and irrigation system... Etc., which contributes to the development of society and a better life for the citizen at a cost of about 766 million pounds
