Egypt has a high potential for energy efficiency, very significant Egypt wind energy and abundant solar energy resources. The Government of Egypt is in 2008 defining the policy to tap these resources and safeguard at the same time the affordable energy supply.

 

Egypt wind energy is the leading in Middle East and Africa 20/4/2009

The new Global Wind 2008 Report of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) confirms the leading position of Egypt wind energy in the regions Middle East and Africa, in terms of new additions as well as installed wind energy capacity. According to GWEC which received information by NREA, Egypt added 55 MW to achieve 365 MW at the end of the year 2008.
Global wind energy capacity grew by 27,000
MW to reach over 120,000 MW. Extremely high
additions were installed in the US (over 8,000 MW), and China (more than 6,000 MW).

Egypt enjoys an excellent wind energy regime, particularly in the Gulf of Suez, where average wind energy speeds reach 10 m/sec. Egypt cooperated with Denmark to produce a wind energy Atlas, issued in 1996, for the Gulf of Suez west coast. In 2003, a detailed Wind Atlas for the same area was issued, concluding that the region can host several large scale Egypt wind energy farms.

 

The atlas was expanded to cover the entire land area of Egypt in 2005, to establish the meteorological basis for the assessment of Egypt wind energy resources. The atlas indicates that large regions of the eastern and western deserts of the Nile River and parts of Sinai have average annual wind energy speeds of 7-8 m/s.