Electricity in Egypt - The current Electricity market structure in Egypt

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The current Electricity market structure in Egypt is formed of a power pool market structure where we have a single buyer and a single seller, The transmission company is playing the role of this single buyer and seller, it purchases all the generated energy from the generation companies and sell it.

Egyptian Electricity Grid Data

Description	2004/2005	2003/2004	Variance%
Peak load MW	15678	14735	6.4
The total of Power Generated all over the Republic MVA	100996	94913	6.4
Hydro MVA	12644	13019	(2.9)
Thermal MVA	74560	67948	9.7
Power generated from wind MVA	523	368	42.1
power Purchased from (IPPs) MVA	69	77	(10.4)
Power generated from private sector (BOOT) MVA	13200	13501	(2.2)
Exported Energy GWh	699	918	(24)
Energy transmitted GWh	84542	78029	8.2
Energy generated from Isolated power plants GWh	302.5	269.6	11.2
Total Installed Capacity MW	18544	18119	2.3
Hydro	2745	2745	-
Thermal	15659	13186.5	18.8
Wind	140	140	-
Private Sector	2047.5	2047.5	-
Transmission Line lengths km
500 kV	2262	2263	-
400 kV	33	33	-
220 kV	13920	13711	1.5
132 kV	2467	2467	-
66 kV	16248	15724	3.3
33 kV	2725	2755	(1.1)
Transformers Capacities MVA
500 kV	7765	7765	-
220 kV	25240	23965	5.3
132 kV	3491	3491	-
66 kV	31170	29362	6.2
33 kV	1783	1801	(1)