Five-hour power cut planned for 10 Safaga areas on Saturday
The local unit says the supply goes off from 9am to 2pm for maintenance on a distribution panel, affecting Kilo 1, 3 and 5, both housing districts and the industrial zone.
12 November 2026
Ten areas of Safaga will be without electricity on Saturday from 9am to 2pm, the city's local unit has announced.
The five-hour cut follows a notice from Safaga's electricity engineering department, which is carrying out periodic maintenance on a distribution panel and work to raise the efficiency of the network. Power will come back as soon as the maintenance is finished, the local unit said.
The areas named in the notice are:
- Al-Thallaga and Al-Maglis
- the Eastern Housing and Western Housing districts
- Taqsim Al-Ahali
- Kilo 1, Kilo 3 and Kilo 5
- parts of the Television area
- the industrial zone
Residents and the commercial and service businesses in those areas were asked to make arrangements for the hours without power. The notice was reported on Thursday, 12 November, and gives the day as the coming Saturday, 14 November.