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Neither source uses the term \"ODA\": Siemens calls it a JICA-funded loan and the ministry records it as a loan from Japan.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-8548c53edcd73b1e", "field": "snippet", "text": "to build two advanced distribution management systems for the Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324" ], "supportNote": "The release's summary bullet reads \"Siemens to supply two Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) for Alexandria Supervisory Control Center and West Alexandria Distribution Control Center\", and the body says Siemens \"has been awarded a contract to upgrade the distribution management system and establish an advanced metering infrastructure for Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)\". It identifies AEDC as a subsidiary of the state-owned Egyptian Electricity Holding Company responsible for the distribution network of Alexandria Governorate.", "caveat": "The customer named in the release is AEDC, but the signing ceremony it pictures was attended by the chief executive of the parent holding company, so the contracting party on the Egyptian side is not stated unambiguously.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2531875c796ff1d3", "field": "snippet", "text": "one for the West Alexandria region, one to supervise every distribution control centre in the city", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324" ], "supportNote": "\"During the upcoming 30 months, Siemens will be implementing an ADMS control center for the West Alexandria region and a control center to supervise all distribution control centers in Alexandria.\"", "caveat": "The release describes what the contract was to deliver in 2022. It does not say whether the city-wide supervisory centre has since been built or is in service.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3b2c3160528b602d", "field": "snippet", "text": "plus an Esri geographic information system", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324" ], "supportNote": "\"Following the partnership agreement signed with ESRI in July 2022, Siemens will also be delivering ESRI’s Geographical Information System (GIS) within the scope of the project.\"", "caveat": "This is the scope of the 2022 contract. No listed source reports that the geographic information system has been delivered or is in use.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-a4ade326f0a342e8", "field": "snippet", "text": "and 300,000 smart meters", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324", "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "Siemens: \"Advanced metering infrastructure, including the supply of 300,000 smart meters, will be established during the project implementation\", and \"In addition, 300,000 smart meters will be supplied, including the necessary hardware and software to establish an advanced metering infrastructure.\" The chairman of AEDC repeated the same total at the 2026 inspection, describing \"a project of 300,000 smart meters\" (مشروع 300 ألف عداد ذكي).", "caveat": "The two sources place the same 300,000 meters in different areas: Siemens describes them as part of the contract for the Alexandria distribution company as a whole, while the utility's chairman in 2026 described the project as covering the western part of Alexandria.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-89a832eee337d067", "field": "snippet", "text": "over thirty months", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324" ], "supportNote": "\"During the upcoming 30 months, Siemens will be implementing an ADMS control center for the West Alexandria region and a control center to supervise all distribution control centers in Alexandria.\"", "caveat": "Thirty months from the September 2022 announcement would have ended in early 2025, more than a year before the inspection the entry goes on to describe. 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He also described its operational abilities: switching to restore supply, locating faults quickly, and isolating them so power returns to customers via the smart panels.", "caveat": "The report calls the installation an automatic control system; it does not use the term ADMS, name Siemens, or link the centre to the 2022 contract. It also describes the work as upgrades the centre is undergoing rather than a finished system.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-5c1efe83c19b43ef", "field": "snippet", "text": "across 12 transformer stations, 56 distribution units and 100 smart panels", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "\"Engineer Ihab El-Feki also referred to the development works of the 'automatic control system' that the centre is undergoing at 12 transformer stations, 56 distributors, 100 smart panels and 50 medium-voltage capacitors\" (في عدد 12 محطة محولات، و56 موزعًا، و100 لوحة ذكية، و50 مكثفاً جهد متوسط).", "caveat": "The three figures are given for development work under way at the centre, not as a count of assets already under automated control. The report lists a fourth item, 50 medium-voltage capacitors, that the passage omits.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6663abdeff35574f", "field": "snippet", "text": "for roughly a million subscribers along the western coastal strip", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "The centre \"serves many areas and tourist villages extending along the coastal road from kilometre 21 to kilometre 67, with a number of subscribers estimated at about one million subscribers\" (من الكيلو 21 وحتى الكيلو 67، بعدد مشتركين يقدر بنحو مليون مشترك).", "caveat": "The figure is the utility chairman's estimate of the customers in the area the centre covers, not a measured count.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6f6019182df05c66", "field": "snippet", "text": "and 5,000 of the meters had been installed", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "\"The chairman of the board of the Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company noted that the 'smart meter system' (AMI) had been introduced with 5,000 smart meters, out of a total project of 300,000 smart meters in the scope of western Alexandria, and that the remaining meters would be installed\" (تم إدخال “نظام العدادات الذكية” (AMI) بعدد 5 آلاف عداد ذكي).", "caveat": "The count is the utility's own statement at an official visit and has not been independently checked.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6b341c6b77edcb60", "field": "lesson", "text": "Buying the control room and the meters in one contract does not make them arrive together.", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-b05cca32a5838324", "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "The two elements were bought together: the Siemens release describes a single award covering both the control centres and \"300,000 smart meters ... including the necessary hardware and software to establish an advanced metering infrastructure\", to be implemented over 30 months from September 2022. At the June 2026 inspection the control centre was described as operating while the utility reported 5,000 of the 300,000 meters installed.", "caveat": "This is the atlas's reading of the two reports side by side. Neither source draws the comparison, and neither explains why the meter rollout stands where it does.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-3af46ee64a69436a", "field": "lesson", "text": "Alexandria has the supervisory layer over its grid years before the measurement layer underneath it", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "At the June 2026 inspection the West control centre was presented as controlling and monitoring loads and voltages across the western network, with the automatic control system extended to 12 transformer stations, 56 distributors and 100 smart panels, while the metering system stood at 5,000 of a planned 300,000 meters.", "caveat": "Only the West Alexandria centre is described. No listed source reports the state of the city-wide supervisory centre that the same contract covered, so the claim rests on one of the two control rooms bought.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-d63626b2c1fec751", "field": "lesson", "text": "the meters are the half that would locate the losses the loan was signed to reduce", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-e3d5663ede4fe481", "src-9cff69c01d552bfa" ], "supportNote": "The ministry's record states the loan's objective: \"Reduce the loss of energy and to improve the reliability and efficiency of the electricity distribution network for sustainable power supply in the target regions through upgrading of the distribution systems and installation of equipment including advanced smart meters.\" At the inspection the utility gave the same purpose for the meters: monitoring consumption and \"reducing loss rates\" (تقليل نسب الفقد), alongside improving network efficiency and cutting outage times.", "caveat": "Both sources name loss reduction as a goal of the meters. Neither says the meters are the only way to find losses, and no source reports what the losses are or whether they have moved.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-b05cca32a5838324", "title": "Siemens press release, 8 September 2022 (vendor)", "url": "https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-equip-egypts-second-largest-city-adms-and-smart-metering-infrastructure", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "press.siemens.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-417d210efe14c801", "clm-8548c53edcd73b1e", "clm-2531875c796ff1d3", "clm-3b2c3160528b602d", "clm-a4ade326f0a342e8", "clm-89a832eee337d067", "clm-6b341c6b77edcb60" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2022-09-08", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-06", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-22", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Scope: two ADMS for the supervisory and West Alexandria distribution control centres, 300,000 smart meters with AMI hardware and software, Esri GIS; about EUR 50 million; JICA-funded; 30 months' implementation. 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