{"id":603690,"date":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/20\/electricity-prices-frozen-until-january-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"electricity-prices-frozen-until-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/20\/electricity-prices-frozen-until-january-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity prices frozen until January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong> No change to household electricity prices for another 4.5 months: <\/strong>The Madbouly cabinet has approved a decision to leave household electricity prices frozen until 1 January, 2024, following a directive from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3OIJJhj\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">c<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3OIJJhj\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">abinet statemen<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3OIJJhj\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">t<\/a>. The decision is part of an \u201cexceptional package of social protection\u201d measures aimed at easing financial pressures on the public, the statement reads. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> REMEMBER- Price hikes were due last month. <\/strong>The government in June 2022 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/d4c1cc4a-f997-42e5-bf44-02ecd645050f\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">fixed electric<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/d4c1cc4a-f997-42e5-bf44-02ecd645050f\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">ity prices<\/a> for a third time to protect households from the rising cost of living, a freeze that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/962a68ef-c15f-4d0f-8dff-b03b9bb2e61d\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">expired<\/a> at the end of FY 2022-2023 on 30 June. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> A pause on the plan to roll back subsidies: <\/strong> The government in 2020 laid out a roadmap to phase out subsidies by 2025. Had last year\u2019s hikes come into effect, some households would have seen their electricity bills rise by as much as 21%. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> The biggest consumers already foot their <\/strong><strong> full <\/strong><strong> electricity bills \u2014 and more: <\/strong>Subsidies were fully lifted for households that consume more than 650 KWh\/month in FY 2020-2021. These high-consumption households are charged a high markup on their electricity prices, which is used to subsidize low-income and low-consumption households.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> But subsidy reform remains a priority: <\/strong>The phase-out of various types of subsidies is a key pillar of the government\u2019s fiscal reform efforts. Winding down fuel subsidies is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/2f25427b-43e1-4104-9b7a-2aea214242b2\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">condition<\/a> of our USD 3 bn loan program with the International Monetary fund (IMF).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> An ill-lit backdrop: <\/strong>The move comes as the country remains in the grip of a power crisis, with the government implementing a schedule of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/b35e331f-1dfa-474f-95d4-f029128b5944\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">rolling blackouts<\/a> and other power-saving measures after a heatwave triggered a surge in electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> The news got ink in the <\/strong><strong> international <\/strong><strong> business <\/strong><strong> press: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/egypt-keep-electricity-prices-unchanged-consumers-until-jan-2024-2023-08-17\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Household electricity prices had been set to go up on 1 July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7207],"tags":[282,104,244,770,93,72,98],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-603690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-cabinet-watch","tag-economy","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-ministry","tag-energy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-subsidies","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"e5cfef76-aa68-486f-a13a-cade675718c6","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/8\/20.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egyptian gov\u2019t extends freeze on electricity prices until January 2024","related_issue":[603685],"teaser":"Household electricity prices had been set to go up on 1 July","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/8\/.e0285d29-d56d-4059-9ef1-c1487e1d6b90.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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