{"id":16711,"date":"2026-08-01T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=16711"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:40:50","slug":"electricity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/electricity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Subsidies: Egypt Raises Electricity Prices for the Fifth Time in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Friday, the Egyptian government raised the<\/span> prices<\/span><\/a> of electricity for household consumption by an average increase of 12%, for the second time this year, as last April the government approved an increase in the price of commercial consumption at rates ranging from 16% to 20%, in light of a worsening crisis relating to supplies of natural gas, the country’s main source of electricity, in the wake of the Iran-US war.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new increase covered<\/span> most<\/span><\/a> household consumption tiers, while the government kept the price of the first tier unchanged, as the tier that benefits most from subsidy and the one allocated to low consumers, in the words of the official statement, while the increase rates in the remaining tiers ranged between about 11% and 12%, as part of the government’s continued implementation of the <\/span>plan <\/span><\/a>to restructure electricity prices, which aims to gradually reduce the subsidy gap and link selling prices to the cost of production.<\/span><\/p>\n