CAIRO, June 4 (Xinhua) — The quantity of electricity generated from renewable vitality in Egypt elevated from 8.7 billion kWh in 2019/2020 to 10.2 billion kWh in 2020/2021, marking a year-on-year enhance of 17.2 p.c, Egypt’s official statistics company stated on Saturday.
“Egypt has the most important wind and photo voltaic vitality capability in the Middle East and North Africa,” in keeping with a report issued by the nation’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on the eve of the World Environment Day, which is marked by the United Nations on June 5 yearly.
The variety of pure gas-powered vehicles in Egypt elevated by 20.6 p.c from 42,292 vehicles in 2019/2020 to 51,000 vehicles in 2020/2021, in keeping with the report.
Egypt is heading towards a better utilization of renewable vitality as a part of its Egypt Vision 2030 agenda.
Over the previous few years, Egypt has been constructing the Benban Solar Energy Park in the southern province of Aswan, which is among the world’s largest photo voltaic crops.
Egypt may even host the twenty seventh United Nations Climate Change Conference later this yr in Sharm el-Sheikh, a Red Sea resort metropolis.
