Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris sparked an interaction between activists on social media following a satirical tweet he posted about the power outages in Egypt and Lebanon.
Sawiris said in the tweet that he posted on his Twitter page: “When Edison, the inventor of electricity, died in 1931 AD, all the world’s electricity was turned off for a minute in honor of him… Egypt and Lebanon still honor the man every day.”
Al-Ahram Gate stated that the Egyptian government’s plan to reduce electricity loads came after “the temperatures we are currently witnessing doubled, and the consumption of electric energy increased significantly, which was also reflected in the increase in the volume of gas consumption used in electricity production, and the creation of severe pressure on its networks, which led to a decrease in gas pressures in the networks connected to power stations.”
And the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, had made it clear that the reduction of electricity loads will continue until the middle of next week, that is, next Monday after the end of the vacation and the heat wave, according to Al-Ahram Gate.
2023-07-22 06:27:04
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