West Alexandria's Grid Control Centre and the Meters That Have Not Arrived

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In September 2022 Siemens took a contract of about €50 million, financed by a Japanese ODA loan, to build two advanced distribution management systems for the Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company — one for the West Alexandria region, one to supervise every distribution control centre in the city — plus an Esri geographic information system and 300,000 smart meters, over thirty months. When the prime minister inspected the West centre at New Borg El Arab on 7 June 2026 it was running ADMS and GIS across 12 transformer stations, 56 distribution units and 100 smart panels for roughly a million subscribers along the western coastal strip, and 5,000 of the meters had been installed.

Live 📅 since 2022

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byAlexandria Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC); systems supplied by Siemens

Scale🏘️ District

Costabout €50 million for the Alexandria lot, within a programme of about €150 million

FundingJICA (Japan) concessional loan to the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, signed 10 February 2022

🎓 Lesson

Buying the control room and the meters in one contract does not make them arrive together. Alexandria has the supervisory layer over its grid years before the measurement layer underneath it — and the meters are the half that would locate the losses the loan was signed to reduce.

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Sources

↗ Siemens press release, 8 September 2022 (vendor)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. Part of a ~EUR 150 million programme across AEDC, North Cairo and North Delta.

↗ Nile TV News, 7 June 2026 (state media)Prime-ministerial inspection 7 June 2026 of the West Control Centre in New Borg El Arab: 12 transformer stations, 56 distribution units, 100 smart panels, 50 medium-voltage capacitors, about one million subscribers between km 21 and km 67 of the coastal road; '5,000 smart meters have been installed as part of a 300,000-unit project in western Alexandria'.

↗ Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation — project record'Electricity Distribution System Improvement Project Alexandria, North Cairo, and North Delta', JICA loan signed 2022-02-10, objective 'Reduce the loss of energy and to improve the reliability and efficiency of the electricity distribution network'.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “West Alexandria's Grid Control Centre and the Meters That Have Not Arrived” — Alexandria, Egypt. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/alexandria-electricity-adms/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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