System development extensive rural electrification programs-Egypt case

This paper presents the topic of implementation of the extensive rural electrification programs in Egypt. It demonstrates how Egypt, like many other countries in the developing world, is seeking to provide better living standards to the people specifically in rural zones throughout the accelerated economical and social development plans. This project through out its long history was considered to be a top priority and treated with a sense of utmost urgency to curtail the wide gap between urban and rural inhabitants. A strategy has been established to reach rural areas, remote and isolated zones allover the country that can be supplied with electrical energy, either by the conventional way or by using new and renewable energy sources. This calls for extending thousands of kilometers of medium and low voltage overhead transmission lines and constructing hundreds of transformer points