Egypt
EGYEgypt is first in Africa for how much electricity it makes.
246 TWh a year.
What this grid depends on
Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.
Cleaner than 3 in 10 grids worldwide.
What this means
How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.
Egypt generates almost exactly what it uses, with next to nothing crossing its borders.
What this means
Electricity can be sold across a border like anything else, through high-voltage lines connecting one country's grid to the next. Buying it in means leaning on a neighbour to keep the lights on. Selling it means generating more than the country needs.
Most of what this grid runs on is produced at home.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Egypt
Egypt's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
563 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 23% above.
Egypt uses far more electricity per person than countries at its income level.
2,064 kWh a year, against a median of 1,255 across the 18 lower-middle-income countries here.
Egypt’s neighbours
LibyaLibya generates no hydro electricity at all, in a region built on it.
SudanSudan has about as many people as South Korea, and 41 times less electricity to share between them.
IsraelIsrael is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
PalestinePalestine is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
JordanJordan is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Egypt. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.