The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy announced that the current severe and unprecedented global energy resource crisis due to the ongoing war in the Arabian Gulf region has necessitated the ministry’s decision to increase electricity prices for certain commercial and residential consumption brackets, effective this April. The ministry explained that this category constitutes approximately 40 percent of all subscribers, with 86 percent of them exempt from the price increase. The statement further clarified that the price increase is limited to higher consumption brackets, which include the most affluent segments of the population. The ministry has fixed electricity prices for all consumption brackets up to 2000 kilowatt-hours per month, with price increases for this bracket and higher consumption brackets averaging only 16 percent. The ministry has decided to increase commercial electricity prices across all brackets by an average of approximately 20 percent.

Source: Egypt Independent April 05, 2026 15:09 UTC