President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a grant worth 300,000 Kuwaiti dinars from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) to finance a feasibility study aimed at increasing the capacity of the electricity interconnection line between Egypt and Jordan, according to Al Ahram citing the official Gazette.
The approval was issued under Presidential Decree No. 568 of 2025 and came after obtaining Cabinet approval, parliamentary endorsement on March 30, 2026, and presidential ratification on April 5, 2026.
Egypt exported 306.08 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity to Jordan during 2025, generating total revenues of approximately $28.26 million.
The Jordan-Egypt electrical interconnection, operational since 1999, consists of a 400-kilovolt submarine cable spanning 13 kilometers across the Gulf of Aqaba with a current capacity of 500 MW. The connection is part of the Eight-Country Interconnection Project, which includes Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, and Turkey.
