“Missing Surplus” The Egyptians finance power plants its light is dark

2023

“Missing Surplus” The Egyptians finance power plants its light is dark

Entry type: Single project

Country/area: Egypt

Publishing organisation: ARIJ
Daraj

Organisation size: Small

Publication date: 2022-12-28

Language: Arabic

Authors: Eman Mounir, I had to write it under a pseudonym, Maryam Khalil Yaqoub.

Biography:

An Egyptian independent data and investigative journalist who focuses on climate change and environmental issues in the MENA region.
Throughout Egypt and the Arab world, I conducted several investigations about environmental and climate-related issues.
I won many international grants and awards for my journalistic investigations. I also studied data journalism in 2020, and during the last year I focused on training Arab journalists on data journalism.

Project description:

The investigation documents the Egyptian government’s continued construction of power plants during the period from 2014 to 2020, with external and local loans, despite Egypt achieving a surplus in electricity, which wastes billions of pounds annually due to the failure of the stations to operate at their full capacity, due to the lack of markets to sell locally produced electricity, while continuing to deprive villages from the current, in addition to the continued power outages in the Egyptian governorates, due to the lack of development of transport networks in line with the pace of establishing production stations.