Launching the Egyptian NEEAP
The Egyptian National Energy Efficiency Action Plan NEEAP in the electricity sector has been officially launched by H.E. Minister of Energy and Electricity, Mahmoud Balbaa, during the workshop held on the 5th of November 2012 and organized by the Ministry of Energy and Electricity, the League of Arab States, and RCREEE.
The NEEAP is considered to be an electrical energy efficiency roadmap in the residential, public and tourist sectors in Egypt. It includes energy conservation measures in the public and tourist sectors. As for the residential sector, it includes measures of using efficient lighting systems, establishing and activating solar water heaters financing mechanisms. Moreover, it included a number of measures in regard of energy supply, such as renewable energy projects.
In this regard, RCREEE played a major role in establishing NEEAPs in its Member States within the scope of its objective to promote Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency.
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Lebanon: serious steps toward energy efficiency
The Ministry of Energy and Water is taking serious steps to enhance energy efficiency in Lebanon. In this regard, the Ministry is seeking to install 1000 Solar PV public Street Lighting Systems and it has announced a new request for proposals for the supply and installation of these systems.
Source: LCEC
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Morocco: DESERTEC and ADEREE sign MoU on renewables
In the long process of empowering Northern Africa, a memorandum of understanding was signed by and between DESERTEC Foundation and the Moroccan Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ADEREE). This memorandum would allow experience exchange in regard of developing energy policy and regulation. Besides, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Morocco push ahead the implantation of DESERTEC initiative (DII) to build a wind and solar farm in Morocco by the end of 2016.
Source: PV-Magazine and DESERTEC Foundation
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Egypt: 3500 Megawatt generated from Renewable sources
The government plans to install 3500 Megawatt from solar energy; said Eng. Mahmoud Attia, Vice Chairman of Projects & Operations of New and Renewable Energy Authority (NERA). Besides, the government already launched abiding process for private sector to build wind farms with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts in the area of Zeit Mountain in the west of Suez golf.
Source: AL-Wafd
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