Red Sea Governor Orders an Engineering Committee to Study Renewable Energy Stations
The governorate has been told to form an engineering committee to examine building renewable energy plants, a move framed as support for the coast's tourism expansion. Sites, capacity and timing were not given.
7 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has ordered the formation of an engineering committee to examine building renewable energy stations across the governorate, in a move framed as support for the coast's tourism expansion, Al-Osboa reported on 6 September.
The report gives the directive and its two stated purposes — studying the establishment of renewable energy plants, and backing continued tourism growth. It does not say which sites are under consideration, what generating capacity is envisaged, who sits on the committee, or when it is due to report back.
Power supply is a live constraint along this stretch of coast. Hotels, dive centres and desalination plants between Hurghada and Marsa Alam all draw on a grid that has to stretch further every year as new resorts and housing come online, and the Red Sea's near-constant sun and steady northerly wind are the reasons the governorate keeps appearing in Egypt's renewable-energy planning.
The directive follows other energy items on the coast's agenda this season. Hurghada News has reported on the electricity minister pressing Orascom to keep the 900 MW Ras Shukeir wind farm on schedule, on a solar-powered desalination plant planned for Marsa Alam producing 10,000 cubic metres a day, and on the governor's talks with the higher education minister covering energy, water and visual-identity projects.
For residents and visitors, nothing changes yet: a committee is a study stage, not a construction start. What it signals is that generation capacity — not only hotel capacity — is being treated as part of the coast's tourism build-out. Until the committee reports, the details that would matter most, cost and location among them, remain unstated.