Lead country
Egypt
Participating countries
Egypt
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From December 6, 2016 to December 6, 2021
Project ID: 4998
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Technical team
- Energy Programme
Technical area(s)
- Renewable Energy
Sub-area(s)
- Type: On-grid, rooftop
- Resource: Solar
Landscape(s)
N/A
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Livestock
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Innovative approaches
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Capacity building
- Governance
- Finance economy
Sub-strategy
- Alternative energy sources
- Technical capacity building
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
- Institutional framework
- Green economy
- Energy finance
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 7.1 Ensure universal access to sustainable, reliable energy
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
The project aims to develop and accelerate the adoption of grid-integrated photovoltaic (PV) power generation through adoption by individual users, households and small and medium size enterprises. Although Egypt is very rich in solar resource and is not able to meet its power demand , the present circumstances do not allow the development of widespread renewable power in general for several reasons. Some of these reasons are: lack of a renewable energy grid-code; lack of a framework to allow the sale of power to the grid; lack of technical know-how in the market; lack of technical solutions on the market; lack of user experience with the technology; and lack of user awareness with the possible solutions offered by today's PV technology.
Objectives
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the removal of barriers to widespread application of decentralised PV-based power generation.
USD $3,616,364
Grant amount
USD $30,360,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,616,364)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Egypt
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