# Egypt's Energy Sector — Understanding the 2023 Electricity Crisis Through Data
A multi-tool data analytics project analyzing 20 years of Egyptian energy and economic data (2000–2023) to answer one question:
> Was the 2023 electricity crisis a generation shortfall, or something upstream?
The same panel data was analyzed five different ways — SQL Server, Python, Excel, Power BI, and Tableau — so the conclusion wouldn't rest on a single tool or a single chart.
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## 📌 Project Overview
In the summer of 2023, Egypt experienced rolling power outages. This project tests the obvious assumption — that generation capacity ran out — directly against two decades of production, demand, gas-supply, and macroeconomic data.
**Conclusion:** It wasn't a generation shortage. Generation hit an all-time high in 2023 (221.9 TWh) and stayed above demand all year. The real strain was upstream, in the gas-supply chain — financial arrears, cut exports, and currency depreciation.
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## 🗂️ Data Sources
The project workbook contains five linked sheets, all loaded into SQL Server with zero missing cells across the entire dataset:
| Sheet | Size | Key Columns |
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| Annual Panel | 384 rows · 16 countries · 2000–2023 | population, GDP, electricity generation/demand, gas production, renewables share |
| Monthly Gas (Egypt) | 184 rows · 2011–2025 | exports/imports, indigenous production, arrears, EGP/USD rate, avg. temperature |
| Suez Canal Revenue | 22 rows | calendar/fiscal year, revenue (USD billion) |
| Zohr Gas Timeline | 20 rows | Zohr field output vs. national gas production |
| Electricity Tariffs | 77 rows | year, usage tier, price (EGP/kWh) |
Public reference sources for this class of data: World Bank Open Data, IEA, EIA, the Central Bank of Egypt, the Suez Canal Authority, and CAPMAS.
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## 🛠️ Tools & Methods
### 1. SQL & Python
- Data cleaning: deduplication, date reconstruction, consistency checks
- Feature engineering: electricity gap, gas self-sufficien …