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Unit” to strengthen its climate change institutional framework on the national level,
to be a Central Department in Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency in 2009.
Meanwhile, on the sectoral level, attempts to strengthen the institutional framework
led to establishing two committees in Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
and Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, in addition to establishing a climate
change information centre for the agriculture sector, and conducting an adaptation
program in Agriculture Sustainable.
Development Strategy up to 2030. The Committee was established to:
• Coordinate on a national level, regarding the participation of Egypt in the
Framework-Convention for Climate Change;
• Develop an overall picture of the Egyptian policies and strategies for dealing with
the issue of climate change;
• Review the National Action Plan for Climate Change;
• Follow up on the implementation of the Framework Convention for Climate
Change.
Through this, a number of policies and measures have been implemented to
decrease the GHG emissions and enhance the generation and use of renewable energy.
We will now provide some examples of these. First, according to the decision of the
Cabinet of Ministers in Egypt, the Ministry of Transport adopted a strategy that
includes improving public transport, energy efficiency, and fuel switching. It also
supports the development and use of new propulsion technologies and new methods for freight transport, including shifting from diesel to electrified railways and
developing and using fuel cells technology.
Second, in October 2007, the Supreme Council for Energy adopted a strategy for
energy supply and used, integrating the main policies and measures that could meet
the longer-term challenges facing the national energy industry. The main barriers that
currently prevent the industrial sector from achieving full energy conservation and
considerable GHG emissions reduction include a lack of information related to GHG
emission reduction opportunities in the sector in addition to financial barriers such
as the lack of access to investment capital and or high-interest rate on investments.
Third, the Egypt Renewable Energy Law (Decree No. 203/2014) aims to encourage the private sector to produce electricity from renewable energy sources. The
law provides several options for support to renewable energy projects and allows a
gradual shift away from state-administered projects to privately financed projects.
The key project structures envisaged are (Art. 2):
• Projects which are tendered and operated by New and Renewable Energy Authority
(established in 1986);
• Projects which are tendered by the (state-owned) Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (ETC) on a Build-Own-Operate basis, where the private investor
enters into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with ETC.
Fourth, a series of projects have been established by private investors who sell
the electricity generated by those projects to ETC on the basis of the feed-in tariff
(FiT) enacted by Decree 1947/2014. The tariff provides 25 years guarantees for solar
M. A. S. Abdel Monem and P. Lewis
Unit” to strengthen its climate change institutional framework on the national level,
to be a Central Department in Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency in 2009.
Meanwhile, on the sectoral level, attempts to strengthen the institutional framework
led to establishing two committees in Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
and Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, in addition to establishing a climate
change information centre for the agriculture sector, and conducting an adaptation
program in Agriculture Sustainable.
Development Strategy up to 2030. The Committee was established to:
• Coordinate on a national level, regarding the participation of Egypt in the
Framework-Convention for Climate Change;
• Develop an overall picture of the Egyptian policies and strategies for dealing with
the issue of climate change;
• Review the National Action Plan for Climate Change;
• Follow up on the implementation of the Framework Convention for Climate
Change.
Through this, a number of policies and measures have been implemented to
decrease the GHG emissions and enhance the generation and use of renewable energy.
We will now provide some examples of these. First, according to the decision of the
Cabinet of Ministers in Egypt, the Ministry of Transport adopted a strategy that
includes improving public transport, energy efficiency, and fuel switching. It also
supports the development and use of new propulsion technologies and new methods for freight transport, including shifting from diesel to electrified railways and
developing and using fuel cells technology.
Second, in October 2007, the Supreme Council for Energy adopted a strategy for
energy supply and used, integrating the main policies and measures that could meet
the longer-term challenges facing the national energy industry. The main barriers that
currently prevent the industrial sector from achieving full energy conservation and
considerable GHG emissions reduction include a lack of information related to GHG
emission reduction opportunities in the sector in addition to financial barriers such
as the lack of access to investment capital and or high-interest rate on investments.
Third, the Egypt Renewable Energy Law (Decree No. 203/2014) aims to encourage the private sector to produce electricity from renewable energy sources. The
law provides several options for support to renewable energy projects and allows a
gradual shift away from state-administered projects to privately financed projects.
The key project structures envisaged are (Art. 2):
• Projects which are tendered and operated by New and Renewable Energy Authority
(established in 1986);
• Projects which are tendered by the (state-owned) Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (ETC) on a Build-Own-Operate basis, where the private investor
enters into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with ETC.
Fourth, a series of projects have been established by private investors who sell
the electricity generated by those projects to ETC on the basis of the feed-in tariff
(FiT) enacted by Decree 1947/2014. The tariff provides 25 years guarantees for solar