Butane crisis escalates: gas cylinders hit LE40   3/2/2010
The shortage of butane gas cylinders intensified in Cairo and the provinces Wednesday, with the price of a single butane gas cylinder in some areas reaching as high as LE40 on the black market. Clashes over limited numbers of available cylinders, meanwhile, have been reported outside local butane distribution outlets. In a bid to assuage the situation, Giza Governor Sayed Abdel Aziz .... ...

17,000 new taxis hit streets   27/1/2010
Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali announced Wednesday that 17,000 new taxis had recently been delivered to their owners within the context of a government-sponsored program that aims to replace old and decrepit taxis with brand new white ones, to be paid for by installment through favorable bank loans. Another 21,000 new cabs were set to be delivered within days, he .... ...

TARGET EXCEEDED: Power from renewables attains 16 percent in Germany   28/12/2009
Renewables in 2009 accounted for 16 percent of total electricity production in Germany. Thus Germany exceeds its target for 2010 of 12.5 percent, which was agreed within the EU. The Federation Association for Energy and Water (BDEW) informed the "Handelsblatt" further, that While the electricity consumption in 2009 decrease by five percent, the production of electricity from renewable .... ...

Calls for maintaining subsidized energy prices in industry   21/12/2009
Minister of Trade and Industry, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, will supposedly ask the Ministries of Petroleum and Electricity to once again freeze energy prices in 2010. Energy prices remained flat in 2009, at 2008 levels, i.e. decreased in absolute terms, in order to help companies deal with the financial crisis. The Ministry of Trade and Industry aims to increase industrial production by .... ...

BMZ: Climate protection and development go hand in hand   18/12/2009
The Federal German Minstry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) made an important clarification on the funds for Climate protection: The resources earmarked for climate protection by Germany, are new and in addition, that is, they were not available in previous development budgets. Therefore no action for poverty reduction or health or other development areas will be .... ...

'No need for nukes'   17/12/2009
Officials reject demands from some members of the Shura Council that Egypt develop a nuclear weapons programme, reports Gamal Essam El-Din from Al Ahram Weekly ----------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- For days now, independent and opposition members of the consultative upper house, the Shura Council, have been orchestrating a surprise call .... ...

Implementing Higher Education and Research Projects of Energy, Biofuel and Agriculture in collaboration with Italy   16/12/2009
Dr. Hani Helal, Minister of Higher Education and of State for Scientific Research in collaboration with Dr. Mariastella Gelmini, Minister of Education in Italy, have agreed on implementing several projects emerging from the 2009 Egyptian-Italian Year for Science and Technology in the fields of energy, new energy, renewable energy, solar energy, biofuel, nanotechnology, agriculture and .... ...

260 Million EGP for replacing 2 million energy-saving street lighting bulbs   16/12/2009
The Ministry of Local Development continues to coordinate with both Ministries of Electricity and Finance in the frame of implementing the energy efficiency improvement project, which is in line with the government's plan to rationalize energy consumption. It is furthermore an activation of the decision of the Supreme Council for Energy, setting up a number of programs, among which .... ...

Wind park tenders for private sector   15/12/2009
Dr. Hassan Younes: Invitation for tender pertaining to 1000 Mega Watt offered to the private sector on two phases 10 consortia and companies have qualified for the short list that has been drawn up by the Ministry of Electricity. The short list is for a competition in the frame of invitation to tender for building the first power station generating electricity from wind energy .... ...

Industry leaders insist to maintain subsidies   13/12/2009
Al Masry Al Youm reports on government's ambiguous attitude towards raising energy prices in the coming year, and industry leeder's request for calling off increase prices The government's attitude is still ambiguous with regard to applying an increase of energy prices in the coming year, which pertains to 4 kinds of industries that had received temporary exemption at the beginning .... ...