Egyptian officials attribute power crisis to fuel shortages

STORY: Egyptian officials attribute power crisis to fuel shortages DATELINE: July 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity 2. various of the electric grid facilities STORYLINE: The Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Mohamed Shaker, met with Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tariq Al-Mulla at the headquarters of the Ministry of Electricity in the New Administrative Capital on Monday, to develop quick solutions to end the power outage crisis resulting from fuel shortages. A spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity, Ayman Hamza confirmed that the load crisis on the network is expected to end by cutting off electricity to subscribers in the middle of this week. Hamza added that the crisis of interruptions that the country is currently witnessing is due to the lack of fuel used in the production of electric power, revealing that the national electricity grid is capable of generat

China's highest-altitude mega hydropower plant fully operational

STORY: China's highest-altitude mega hydropower plant fully operational DATELINE: March 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: YAJIANG COUNTY, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the mega hydropower plant STORYLINE: With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially being put into use, a mega hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW, the Lianghekou hydropower plant is located on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Construction of the project, with an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generat