{"id":203437,"date":"2025-07-28T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-records-highest-ever-electricity-load-at-38800-mw\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:11:51","slug":"egypt-records-highest-ever-electricity-load-at-38800-mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-records-highest-ever-electricity-load-at-38800-mw\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Records Highest-Ever Electricity Load At 38,800 Mw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Egypt&#8217;s unified electricity grid registered its highest-ever load on Saturday, setting a new record of 38,800 megawatts&#8211;an increase of 800 megawatts in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The figure surpasses both last year&#8217;s peak and this year&#8217;s previous high of 38,000 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">In a statement, the Ministry of Electricity said the national grid successfully withstood an unprecedented surge in demand, describing the event as a real test unlike any it had faced before. The spike occurred amid soaring temperatures,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s unified electricity grid registered its highest-ever load on Saturday, setting a new record of 38,800 megawatts&#8211;an increase of 800 megawatts in a single day. The figure surpasses both last year&#8217;s peak and this year&#8217;s previous high of 38,000 megawatts. In a statement, the Ministry of Electricity said the national grid successfully withstood an unprecedented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,4895,51975,28345,257,6850,254],"class_list":["post-203437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-electricity","tag-highestever","tag-load","tag-news","tag-records","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}