Infrastructural data 45% open

Egypt

What data is expected?

A selection of infrastructural information, focussing on energy provision and water consumption.

  • Electricity consumption
  • Power stations and electric capacity
  • Electricity transmission networks (geographic position)
  • Power outages
  • Prices
  • Water consumption/per capita
  • None of the above

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Available free of charge Yes
Downloadable Yes Only counts for energy reports
Publicly available Yes
Openly licenced No
Up-to-date No
In an open and machine-readable format
Digital data No
Print data No
location https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/report.aspx - Energy capacity by power station , https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/report.aspx - Energy prices
Collected by government Yes
findable_steps The only official sources are the national electricity company and the national water company and they are not publishing any statistics or datasets. Googling did not return any official source. Some water statistics are available at the CAPMAS website however it's outdated.
characteristics Power stations and electric capacity, Prices
Controlled access Yes
Collector name Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Electricity Holding, National water company The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/home.aspx Mission: “The last decree was in 1974 and stated that the goal of the ministry is to provide the electricity to all consumers all over the country. And in order to full fill that obligation, the ministry has to:- Settle the general plan & energy generation, transmission and distribution using the high-tech and the latest scientific development and supervise the execution of such plan and follow-up the different activities concerning the electrical network. Suggest the electric energy prices for all different voltage levels and different usages. Supervise the study and execution of essential electrical projects. Publish the statistics and data relating to electric energy production & consumption. Provide the technical consultancies and services in the electric fields to Arab countries and all others.” The Ministry also publishes reports produced by the Egyptian Electricity Holding publishes annual reports with national aggregates of energy production, capacity per power plant and prices. see here: https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/report.aspx Water is monitored and governed by multiple agencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Egypt According to Wikipedia The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency is responsible for environmental affairs and the assessment and monitoring of water use.
The only data found are available as charts.

Meta data

Data location   https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/report.aspx - Energy capacity by power station
   https://www.moee.gov.eg/english_new/report.aspx - Energy prices
Data licence   Unknown
Data format   Unknown
Reviewer   Danny Lämmerhirt
Submitters   Hatem Ben Yacoub
Last modified   Mon May 28 2018 19:03:38 GMT+0000 (UTC)