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Regional Conference on “Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions in the MENA Region: A Driver of Local Value and Job Creation”
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Regional Conference on “Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions in the MENA Region: A Driver of Local Value and Job Creation”
Date: 22 May 2016
Venue: Hotel Intercontinental Semiramis, Cairo
Workshop report: link
Concept Note: Link
Agenda
| Time | Item | Speaker |
| 09:00-09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Opening speeches
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| 10:00-10:30 | Setting the scene: DRE potential in the region | Steffen Erdle, GIZ/RE-Activate & Ulrike Lehr, GWS |
| 10:30-11:30 | First Session: Starting small, growing fast – DRE as a catalyst for RE deployment | Moderator: Maged Mahmoud, RCREEE |
| Jordan | Dianna Athmaneh, MEMR | |
| Lebanon | Sorina Mourtada, LCEC | |
| Tunisia | Ali Ben Abdallah, GIZ/REActivate | |
| Mauritania | Cheikh Hamoud, RCREEE | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Second Session: From niche to mainstream – PV markets in the Arab region | Moderator: Dieter Uh, GFA |
| - Socio-economic impact study: value creation through small-scale PV in Morocco | Christoph Urbschat, Eclareon | |
| - Perspectives and challenges for roof-top PV development in the Arab region | Wael El-Nashar, ONERA | |
| - Perspectives and challenges of PV manufacturing in the Arab region | TBC | |
| - PV: increasing resilience in times of crisis | Ashish Khanna, World Bank | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Third Session: Promising but challenging - Solar heating markets in the Arab region | Moderator: Arnulf Knorr, GIZ/RCREEE |
| - The SHAMCI Quality Scheme | Ashraf Kraidy, RCREEE | |
| - Local SWH manufacturing in Tunisia | Ahmed Ernez, BSI Solar | |
| - Industrial process heat applications | Ali Abu Sena, ENCPC | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Fourth Session: Classical yet underserved – Off-grid markets in the Arab region | Moderator : Hammou Laamrani, GIZ |
| - Hybrid solar applications in the Egyptian hotel sector | Rana El-Guindy, RCREEE | |
| - A tentative assessment of the Egyptian solar pumping market | Inass Abo Khodeir, RCREEE | |
| - Introduction of PV-diesel hybrid solutions in off-grid agriculture and tourism in Egypt | Roman Brinzanik, Kraftwerk | |
| - Solar pumping experiences from Morocco and Tunisia | Dieter Uh, GFA | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Wrap up & Closing: How to Use DRE for Growth and Benefit-Sharing in MENA | Steffen Erdle and Maged Mahmoud |
| 19:00 | Joint Dinner with Speakers and Organizers |
Reference
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This article is part of the RE-ACTIVATE project. RE-ACTIVATE “Promoting Employment through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in the MENA Region” is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). |
