Arab Finance: Experts and officials emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence uses in the field Energy Stressing the need to increase investment in this field.
For his part, Khaled Hashem, head of a company Haniole, it is necessary to maximize the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the field of energy because it speeds up the field of maintenance and improves operations and productivity.
Hashem added during a session on artificial intelligence and its energy uses on the sidelines of the Egypt International Energy Conference and Exhibition Ice 2025 Artificial intelligence contributed to bridging the gap in operations, and also contributes to integrating data in ways much easier to save time and effort, and artificial intelligence allows dealing with the shortage of employment.
Hashem continued: We at Haniole have partnerships with Google to use artificial intelligence in operations and industrial technology.
Investing in artificial intelligence contributes to solving the problems facing energy
Hashem called for the need to focus on the energy mix with attention to clean and green energy with the use of technology to obtain these types of energy, pointing out that investing in artificial intelligence contributes to facing the challenges facing the energy sector and also contributes to solving many problems and also helps to raise the productivity and efficiency of equipment Used in energy production.
Marco Villa, CEO of Operations at Technip Antrig International, said that energy must be managed in an optimal and correct way with high quality while reducing carbon emissions, stressing the need to pay attention to safety factors as well.
Ahmed Al -Hoshi, CEO of the Emirati Vertelob, stressed that Egypt has huge natural resources of sun and winds that qualify it for leadership in the green hydrogen sector globally.
He explained that Egypt also has a strong infrastructure suitable for exporting green hydrogen through gas pipes.
He pointed out that the projects of hydrogen and green ammonia need huge financing to expand in the context of accelerating the process of energy transformation and reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
He expected green hydrogen to constitute a long -term global energy map in the next 50 years, although it is still less economical than blue hydrogen.
Climate pledges must be fulfilled
The CEO of the Egyptian General Petroleum Authority, Salah Abdel Karim, said that Egypt pays great attention to expanding renewable energy projects in the context of fulfilling its climatic pledges.
He added that Egypt aims to expand green hydrogen projects to keep pace with the local demand for energy and export abroad.
He continued that Egypt suffers from a large gap between the desire to keep pace with the demand for electricity and achieve energy security and fulfill its climatic pledges on the other hand.
He added that Egypt has established huge projects in the solar and wind energy sector in the context of strengthening the energy transformation agenda and reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
He also highlighted that Egypt has become dependent on natural gas and considers it as a main source of energy as part of its plan to reduce emissions.
He pointed out that Egypt also started signing major agreements with its partners to expand green hydrogen projects.
He explained that the Egyptian government is working to raise awareness to raise energy efficiency in parallel with the expansion of clean energy projects in the context of its efforts to ensure energy security.
The Egyptian strategy aims to raise the contribution of renewable energy to the power mix to 42% by a year.
The increasing demand for energy should be paid
The Vice President of the International Gas Federation, Androita Steller, stressed that ensuring energy security continues to lead peoples' concerns to keep pace with the increasing demand for electricity, especially with regard to gas.
He explained that the European Union funds developing countries to confront the electricity deficit crisis, noting that the solution to the energy poverty crisis is still a priority for most countries.
He demanded that the dialogue be opened widely in order to spread awareness of the culture of clean energy, calling for a faster and flexible sustainability to ensure food security and fuel that occupy the introduction of the priorities of peoples.
He called for the achievement of energy justice by helping African countries to expand gas projects to fulfill their needs with the least environmental damage.
For his part, the CEO of the Green Hydrogen Organization, Johns Mogberg, pointed out the need to accelerate the economic feasibility of green hydrogen in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
He pointed out that the solar energy and batteries storage system are now reaching everyone thanks to the Chinese efforts to reduce the cost of equipment.
Achieving economic feasibility
Mogberg stressed that Egypt and the Middle East have huge resources of clean energy that qualify them to expand the production and export of green hydrogen to Europe.
He explained the need to attract investments in the green hydrogen sector and find potential consumers while providing international support for this important sector in order to reduce prices.
He called for providing the necessary funding for green hydrogen projects and persuading donors to the feasibility of investing in this sector while reducing risks.
He pointed out that the shift towards the economy of the green hydrogen is still difficult at the moment, but it can be shift in the production of green ammonia.
He called for the necessity of expanding research and modern technologies to reduce the price of green hydrogen and achieve economic feasibility of its production.
He called on the concerned parties to cooperate and open an open dialogue to make the markets available to accommodate clean fuel by setting legislation and incentives to expand projects.
For his part, Dr. Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, stressed that there is an integrated plan to raise the efficiency of the electrical network and turn it into a smart network to accommodate the new capabilities, which contributes to achieving the targets Gigate of wind and sun energy, pumping and storage projects, hydroelectric energy and energy projects Nuclear.
The Minister pointed out during a session entitled “Forming the Future of Energy in Egypt through cooperation, integration and responsibility” to the importance of enhancing the future of energy in Egypt through cooperation and responsibility, noting improving environmental performance through energy efficiency, removing carbon and relying on renewable energies, according to the state's strategy for energy transformation and vision Egypt 2030.
He also stressed support for the participation of the private sector in renewable energy projects and removing obstacles to ensure adherence to timelines to add new capabilities of renewable energy and linking them to the network, pointing to creating an attractive investment environment through legislative reforms and allocating 42 thousand km2 lands for renewable energy projects.
He added that Egypt launched its national green hydrogen strategy, targeting 5-8% of the global market by 2040, with the establishment of the National Council of Green Hydrogen and the issuance of a new law for investment incentives, as well as infrastructure development and training human cadres to enhance the competitiveness of the sector globally.
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, stressed the importance of the role of the environment in achieving energy security in Egypt, stressing the Ministry of Environment's keenness to update the guidelines to assess the environmental and social impact of various activities every period, including the activities and projects for energy, pointing out that the Ministry of Environment plays an important role in encouraging an achievement The future of sustainable energy and the promotion of a low -carbon economy, through initiatives, strategies, and promotion For renewable energy sources.
The Minister of Environment explained that Egypt has provided its specific contributions plan, and is keen to achieve its climatic obligations, although Egypt's emissions are less than 1%, and in a way that does not affect sustainable development, but we need to increase climate financing and more technology to accelerate the implementation of the plan, where it set ambitious energy goals in it Renewed, the plan was updated twice, the last of which was to increase the ambition to achieve the goal of 42? From renewable energy in the energy mix by 2030, while working to diversify new and renewable energy sources.
The Minister of Environment indicated that the connection between the climate and the biological diversity is a challenge facing the expansion of renewable energy, guiding to work to protect the migratory birds whose journey is located in an area such as Zaafarana in which the wind farm and air mills have been established, and which pose a threat to it, which links efforts Development of renewable energy to mitigate the effects of climate change by preserving biological diversity.
Eng. Mohamed Shimi, Minister of Public Business Sector, stressed, during the session, the Ministry’s plan to transform energy and achieve sustainability through modernizing and developing subsidiary companies and enhancing their ability to adapt to global changes and expand renewable energy projects, and many initiatives to improve energy efficiency in industrial establishments and enhance innovation In new technologies to improve the environmental performance of the industrial sector, and support investments in green projects that achieve environmental and economic benefits.
The minister pointed to a number of projects of the Ministry of Business Sector in the field of transformation of clean energy and improving energy efficiency, including a single solar power plant project with one gigawatom capacity to feed the aluminum complex in Nagaa Hammadi with clean energy in cooperation with your Norwegian Skat, at an investment cost of 750 million dollars, and the project to produce the glass used in power stations Solar at Al -Nasr Glass and Crystal Company, and the project to produce electric vehicles in cooperation with the private sector Foreign after restarting Al -Nasr Motors Company, as well as the Green Ammonia Factory with a capacity of 1000 tons/ day in partnership with the private sector, and setting up an industrial and healthy wastewater plant at Al -Nasr Fertilizer Company in Suez with a capacity of 750 m3/ hour, as well as a number of hotels in the Holding Company for Tourism and Hotels on Green star testimonies that reflect the interest in the concepts of sustainable tourism, compatibility with environmental standards, and achieving Environmental sustainability and energy saving in the national project for the development of the textile industry.
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