Electricity prices in Egypt

This is EgyptERA's regulated household rate for the 201–350 kWh slab, the extra units of a home using 250 kWh a month (an illustrative figure); that home pays EGP 1.15 for its first 200 kWh and EGP 1.73 for the rest. It leaves out the monthly customer service charge of EGP 1 to 40 and a stamp duty of EGP 3 a year. Egypt's slabs depend on total monthly use, so the cheapest rates apply only to very small users, and homes above 650 kWh a month pay one higher rate on every unit.

Checked against EgyptERA on November 13, 2026.

This table is for homes using 101 to 650 kWh a month, which pay slab by slab: EGP 1.15 for the first 200 kWh, 1.73 for units 201–350 and 2.14 for units 351–650. Homes using 100 kWh or less pay EGP 0.68 for the first 50 kWh and 0.98 for the next 50 instead. Above 650 kWh a month there are no slabs: every unit costs EGP 2.41 if the total stays within 1,000 kWh and EGP 2.74 above that, so for those homes the whole bill is higher than the table suggests. Bills also carry a customer service charge of EGP 1 to 40 a month that rises with consumption.

Egypt's electricity comes mostly from natural gas, with hydropower from the Aswan High Dam and a growing share of wind and solar, including the large Benban solar park. Generation, transmission and distribution are dominated by state-owned companies under the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, and the regulator, EgyptERA, publishes the tariffs that households pay.

Household rates rise steeply through a series of monthly consumption slabs, and the cheapest rates apply only to homes with very low use, so the price per unit depends heavily on how much a home consumes. The government has been raising tariffs in stages to reduce a large subsidy bill while keeping the lowest slab protected. Summer heat drives air-conditioning demand, and gas shortages caused rolling power cuts in some recent summers.