Session1 countries potentials, challenges and trends authored and_or presented by ashraf kraidy

Renewable Energies in the RCREEE Member Countries

Potentials, Challenges and Trends

RCREEE/MED-EMIP Joint Event on Occasion of the Second IRENA PrepCon

MENA Energized: Regional Challenges to Green the Power Sector

28 June, 2009, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Eng. Ashraf Kraidy,
Senior Expert, RCREEE Interim Secretariat, Cairo

Who’s RCREEE?

• RCREEE stands for « Regional Centre for Renewable Energies
and Energy Efficiency »
• RCREEE is an independent regional policy think tank, dedicated
to the promotion of RE&EE in the MENA region,
• RCREEE main fields of work:
- Policy Framework
- Research and Development
- Public Private Partnership.
• RCREEE is working to be a leading centre of excellence on the
international level


RCREEE Members

RCREEE has ten founding members from the MENA region.
The set up is sponsored by Egypt (also the host country),
Germany, the EU and Denmark.


Governance Structure

Board of Trustees (“BoT”)
Advisory Members
Representatives of 10 Member States Development partners Emminent persons
(no voting rights) (no voting rights)

Executive Committee
5 representatives (Maghreb/Mashreq/host country
plus two from the private sector)

10 Secretariat
Correspondents Director
(One for each Two Deputies,
Member State) composition to reflect the regional character of the centre
(Maghreb/Mashreq/host country)
and the required expertise (RE/EE, R&D, PPP)

Staff


RE Opportunities in Member Countries
The MENA Region is endowed with:
• Abundant solar radiation.
• Long duration of sunshine.
• Good to excellent wind speed.
• Significant hydro power.
• Reasonable quantities of biomass energy.
However, RE is still facing many barriers and constraints vis-à-vis
large scale deployment in the region.
Thus, the objectives of this paper is to capture promising
opportunities, to point out the prevailing challenges and to show
the trends of RE sector.


Solar Energy

• The capacity of solar energy resources is excellent in
all member Countries with an annual global solar
radiation varying between 4 to 8 kWh/m2.
• The region also enjoys high direct normal radiation
and low average cloud cover.
• Electricity production from both Concentrating
Solar Thermal Power (CSP) and Photovoltaic (PV)
has a good potential, due to the fact that the incident
solar radiation on the region is higher than the
required value of (1800 kWh/m2/year).


Solar Energy for Thermal Power
Plants


Direct normal and global horizontal
irradiant of member countries
Global horizontal Direct normal
irradiance irradiance Country
kWh/m2/y (for PV) kWh/m2/y (for CSP)
2,310 2,700 Jordan
1,920 2,000 Lebanon
2,360 2,200 Syria
2,250 2,200 Yemen
1,970 2,700 Algeria
2,450 2,800 Egypt
1,940 2,700 Libya
2,000 2,600 Morocco
1,980 2,400 Tunisia
2,200 2,100 Paledtine

Wind Energy

MENA Countries have good potential of wind
energy since most have an annual full load hours
of over 1400 h/year, which is considered a long-
term economic potential.

Several countries such as Egypt and Morocco have
a very good wind resources (wind velocity range
between 8-11 m/sec)


Potential of wind energy in
member Countries
Full load hours per year (h/y) Country
1,483 Jordan
1,176 Lebanon
1,789 Syria
1,483 Yemen
1,789 Algeria
3,015 Egypt
1,912 Libya
2,708 Morocco
1,200 Palestine
1,789 Tunisia

Biomass Energy

• Traditionally used widely in rural areas for small
purposes.

• MENA Region is arid/semi-arid in nature, thus
small amount of forest and agriculture residues
are available

• The biomass energy potential is mainly available
for most Countries from municipal waste.


Hydro Energy

• Several countries in the region particularly, Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria
have hydro resource.

• The overall Share of hydro electricity is only
5.78% of the total electricity produced. This
portion is very small compared to the available
hydro potential in the Region.


Barriers To Renewable Energy Deployment
In the Member Countries

• In spite of the high potential of renewable energy
resources availability (solar, wind, biomass and hydro)
in the region, only small portions of these resources
are exploited at present.
• Excluding biomass and hydro, renewable energies are
negligible and represent less than 0.1% of the total
energy supply and less than 0.3% of the electric power
capacity.
• The situation varies from one country to another, but
overall a positive trend can recognized lately


Policies and Institutional Barriers

The absence of an effective policies, legislations and
regulations in some cases,
lack of favorable import for RE products and components as
well as conducive policies to promote RE developments;
limited scope for R&D institutions
regulatory measures are requested to stimulate market
opportunities and needs support to introduce innovative
methodologies, attractive schemes, investment capital, and
flexible financial mechanisms


Economic Barriers

Generally high subsidies on oil and gas
Different level of taxation & customs for RE equipment
Public sector RE industry has no incentives to react to market
demand
Private Sector is heavily constrained by regulations
No special incentives to promote RE investment,
Unavailability of financial mechanisms and instruments
encouraging RE manufacturing


Socio – Economic Barriers
Lack of Information about technologies
energy has been available cheaply - no need to explore
other options
Lack of priority for domestic R&D programs
Lack of training & education at university and professional
or vocational level
Weak consumer trust
Domestic expertise are not sufficiently considered

Market and Financial Barriers

Direct financial incentive for both users and investors in RE is
not existed;
No attractive interest rate allocated to the grants for the
purchase of RE equipments.
The lack of a specific line of financing.
RE companies are small size with limited financial capacities.
Low competitiveness due to fossil fuels prices,.
No taxes reduction for RE projects and importing.

RE TRENDS in Member Countries

Targets for future RE capacities have been put in all
members countries
How to achieve this target…. This is the big question
Implementation methods are not clear
Also implementation tools are not available
Strategies for RE development are needed to be put
according to the capabilities


RE Market Situation

Yemen Tunisia Syria Palestine Morocco Libya Lebanon Jordan Egypt Algeria

Independent Power
0 X 0 - X 0 X X X 0
Producers

BOO or BOT bases
0 X 0 - X 0 X X X 0
power plants

Local
X X X X X X X X X X
Manufacturing

Energy Service
Companies 0 0 X 0 0 - 0 X X -
(ESCOs)

Existing: x Planned: o Non-existing: -


RE Regulation and Incentives


Feed-In Tariff &
- - - - - - - - 0 0
Premium

Quotas & Green
- 0 - - 0 - - - 0 0
Certificates

Reduction on taxes
- X O - X - 0 0 X 0
or import duties

Tax credits - - - - - - - - - -



Financial Indicators


Clean Energy Fund - - - - - - - X - -

Public Investment &
- X X - X - 0 x 0 0
Loans

Subsidies X X X - - X X X X X

Taxes - X - X X - - - - -



Capacity Building & Institutional
Framework

Training &
0 X X X X 0 X X X X
Education

Public Awareness
0 X 0 - - 0 X X X X
Campaigns

National
Institutional X X X X X X X X X X
Framework

International
0 0 X 0 0 - 0 X X -
Organizations



What RCREEE Can Do?

Transfer of best practice and exchange success stories
which arise across the region (energy policies)

Harmonize RE Policies in the member states towards
future RE dissemination strategies (MSP)

Become observer and Regional platform at International
forums (IRENA)


Conclusion
The political well for RE promoting is existed.
Targets have been put to be achieved
Institutional framework have been established
Policy framework for RE is in the progress to be
developed
Some RE pilot projects have been implemented
Capacity building is considered
Private sector still doesn't have the needed role
Incentives schemes still not sufficient
RE manufacturing is developing slowly


The big question
While we have the potential
&
We urgently need
&
We know the Challenges
&
We are working on the Trends

What are we waiting for????


Thanks for your Attention

Eng. Ashraf Kraidy,
Senior Expert, RCREEE Interim Secretariat, Cairo
www.rcreee.org


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