Egypt is stepping up its program of developing renewable energy sources as part of its plan to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, with wind energy being one of the favored options. With Egypt’s electricity demands rising by 7% annually and the country’s fossil fuel reserves having a limited life span, Cairo has increasingly been looking to a future without oil and gas on tap to feed its energy needs. The announcement late last year that Egypt was to resurrect its long-dormant civil nuclear energy program, with plans to have a nuclear power station operating within 10 years and others to follow, was a major part of the program. However, while the government’s plans for nuclear power and a call by President Hosni Mubarak on September 21 for the peaceful use of nuclear energy made headlines, especially in the West, the proposal was only part of a wider push to find
