Restructuring of the Egyptian electricity industry

As the electricity industry in Egypt is embarking on a major paradigm shift toward unbundling its vertically integrated structure into smaller entities, devising a suitable restructuring approach, which takes into accord the ideological and economical implications, becomes crucially important. This paper provides and overview on the restructuring process of the Egyptian electricity industry. A conceptual framework for the industry restructuring is outlined in which the retention and regulation of existing generation facilities and the establishment of a separate entity handling the transmission network as well as the introduction of retail business in the distribution supply is proposed.