Egypt Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 59.826 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 149,079,120,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 360 million kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 74 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 33.623 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 88.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 2.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 7.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 0

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 3 (2023)

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 0GW

Percent of total electricity production: 0%

Percent of total energy produced: 0%

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 262,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 2.31 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 86,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 2.134 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 16 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 660,800 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 810,200 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 204,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 117,400 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 3.3 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

547,500 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

47,360 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

280,200 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 64,292,955,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 58,176,781,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 5,009,100,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 83.563 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 1,783,958,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

235.137 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 8.728 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 112.281 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 114.128 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

40.063 million Btu/person (2019 est.)