Egypt’s Power Sector Success: Hon. Osawaru, House Committee on Power Visit Egypt to Understudy What’s Working.

 

Cairo, Egypt | August 20, 2026

In a strategic move aimed at understudying the evolution, transformation, and remarkable successes of Egypt’s power sector, the leadership and members of the Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Power

are currently in Egypt, undertaking an extensive oversight and study visit to examine what the North African nation is doing differently.

Among the members of the delegation is the Honourable member representing Orhionmwon/Uhunmwode Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Chief Dr. Billy Adesuwa Osawaru, who has remained vocal in his advocacy for a lasting solution to Nigeria’s persistent power challenges, particularly the frequent collapse of the national grid.

For Hon. Osawaru, therefore, the visit represents an opportunity to gain first-hand insights into the policies, investments, systems and partnerships that have helped Egypt significantly improve the reliability and capacity of its electricity sector.

Over the years, Egypt has recorded significant progress in its power sector through deliberate energy-sector reforms, massive investments in power generation and transmission, diversification of its energy mix, aggressive development of renewable energy, well-structured public-private partnerships, grid modernisation, and the deployment of technology and digital control systems.

The Egyptian experience demonstrates that transforming a power sector goes beyond building more power plants. It requires a comprehensive approach encompassing grid reliability, fuel security, transmission capacity, technological innovation, private-sector participation and effective contingency planning.

These interventions have helped Egypt strengthen electricity supply and provide a more reliable energy base for industrial activity and economic growth.

As part of the ongoing oversight visit, Hon. Osawaru and other members of the House Committee on Power have visited the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Energy, as well as the headquarters of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo, where they interfaced with relevant authorities and stakeholders on issues of international cooperation, investment and financing for the power sector.

The delegation has also embarked on on-the-spot inspections of major power installations across Egypt, including the impressive Benban Solar Park, one of the country's flagship renewable energy projects and a notable example of large-scale private-sector participation in power generation.

Speaking with his media team, Hon. Osawaru described the central lesson from the Egyptian experience as a strategic partnership between government and the private sector.

“Government provides policy, land, infrastructure, regulation and guarantees, while the private sector provides capital, technology and project execution. The government, in turn, buys and coordinates the electricity, with the grid strengthened to absorb it.”

According to him, the model demonstrates that with deliberate policies, effective regulation, sustained investment and the right partnership framework, aspects of the Egyptian experience can be adapted to Nigeria’s peculiar circumstances.

He expressed the hope that the lessons gathered from the visit would contribute to ongoing efforts to address Nigeria’s perennial electricity challenges, particularly frequent power outages and national-grid collapses.

The Nigerian delegation is expected to visit additional power installations across Egypt and engage further with relevant government agencies, industry stakeholders, investors and development-finance institutions before the conclusion of the study visit.

At the end of the exercise, the findings and lessons from the Egyptian experience are expected to provide useful inputs into the Committee’s oversight responsibilities and ongoing efforts to formulate practical solutions to Nigeria’s power-sector challenges.

And that is precisely what the Nigerian lawmakers have gone to Egypt to understudy.

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