Egypt has been facing a number of challenges concerning supplying affordable energy needed for sustainable development. Energy subsidies continue to be one of the main critical and debatable issues on the political, social and economic levels. The Egyptian government has started a plan to phase out energy subsidies at the end of 2007. The first steps were directed towards energy intensive industries through a gradual increase in natural gas and electricity prices. This book first presents an overview of the energy sector in Egypt. It then shows the energy intensity and the economic...