Giovanna Ceglie

UNIDO Representative and Director Regional Office

Solar Thermal Energy in Egypt

Conference11 June 2013, Cairo

Table of contents

GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES

UNIDO’S WORK IN THE FIELD OF ENERGY

SOLAR PROJECTS IN INDIA AND EGYPT

BRIEF CONCLUSIONS

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UNIDO AT A GLANCE

06/06/11

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) = Specialized Agency of the United Nations

UNIDO has HQ in Vienna, Austria, a network of 45 field offices, 41 National Cleaner Production Centres and 11 Investment and Technology Promotion Offices

MANDATE = promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development, focusing on 3 thematic priorities:

• POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES

• TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING

• ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Global Energy Challenges

• 1.5 billion still lack access to electricity

• 2.7 billion rely on traditional biomass

• Energy Access: a pre-requisite for Poverty

Reduction and achievement of MDGs

Health problems and premature deaths

Climate change, and

Hampers socio-economic advancement

Energy Poverty, Energy Security & Climate Change

Zambia

Ukraine

Chad

ThailandSierra Leone

Nigeria

Liberia

Cambodia

India

Guinea

EgyptCuba

Cote d‘Ivoire

Sri Lanka

Albania

UNIDO energy projects

Cape Verde

Gambia

Cameroon

Comoros

Kenya

Lesotho

Madagascar

Mozambique

South Africa

Sudan

Laos

Colombia

Chile

Dominican Republic

Uruguay

Tanzania

Ecuador

Burkina Faso

Macedonia ( FRY)

Turkey

Moldova

Russia

Iran

Pakistan

China

Malaysia

Indonesia

PhilippinesVietnamMexico

Peru

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Brazil

Paraguay

Uganda

Bangladesh

INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES

INNOVATIVE LOW CARBON TECHNOLOGIES

RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRODUCTIVE USES

Off-grid: stand-alone systems and mini-grids

Industrial applications, i.e. solar thermal, biomass

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Key Technology Focus

Technology Demonstration

Capacity Building

Awareness Raising

Replication strategy

Financing instruments

Policy & Regulation &

Standards

UNIDO Energy Strategy: Building Blocks

RE in Industrial Applications

Potential towards 2050 – UNIDO analysis

Manufacturing industry 1/3 of global E use

60% of industry’s total final E use in non-OECD

Global industrial production x4 by 2050

Up to 21% of final E-use

possible from RE

Bio energy by far largest

potential

Also solar thermal and heat

pumps

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SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING FOR INDUSTRY

GROWING SOLAR MARKET (IEA)

Solar heating market as a whole is growing at 11%, faster than PV and CSP

Solar thermal collector capacity worldwide was 195 GWth at end of 2010

At this rate market will double to 500 GWth by 2017 (IEA, 2011 data)

VARIOUS PRODUCTS AND TEMPERATURE RANGES

Flat plate: up to 150°C

Advanced flat plate / Evacuated tube: 80 to 150°C

Concentrating solar technologies: 60 to 400°C

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Case1: Promoting industrial applications of solar energy in selected industrial sectors in India - UNIDO-GEF5

Project Objective

Promote solar energy in selected industrial sectors

Improve competitiveness of industrial sectors while reducing carbonemissions through technological innovation

Technology: CSTs, heat pipes, non-imaging concentrators

Temperature range: between 150 and 400°C (for CSTs)

Target sectors: Food Processing, Paper and Pulp, Fertilizer, Breweries, Pharmaceutical, Textile (Finishing), Refineries, Rubber, Desalination

! Pharmaceutical/food processing/dairy & breweries = largest users of process cooling

Project will cover both solar heating and cooling applications

Status: detailed design phase ongoing; Expected to start Q3-Q4 2013

Similar projects being developed for Malaysia and Egypt

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Case2: Egypt

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Developing the policy framework to support the use of renewable energy in industrial and commercial applications

Supporting the deployment of solar thermal technologies for multipurpose applications in industrial and commercial applications (implementing projects installing solar thermal technologies and disseminating/upscaling good practice)

Setting up a financial platform to facilitate access to capital

Enhancing the local manufacture, supply and distribution of solar technologies for cooling and heating (securing quality supply through developing standards, quality control and improving technical skills)

Creating a platform to promote partnerships between local industries, international centers of excellence and technology suppliers

Hopeful signs and trends

Finance and Investment in RE in 2010 amounted to a record USD 211 billion

More RE investment in developing countries than in developed economies

About half of new electricity generation capacity worldwide is based on RE; large share in China, also in Latin America and Africa

The biggest markets for RE investment were emerging economies, and with a focus on small scale projects.

Source: UNEP / Bloomberg NEF / Frankfurt Business School

Plenty of experience on policy instruments for electricity production; much less so for heat from RE sources, and for industrial applications, despite the potential => role for UNIDO

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Two final words Economic viability

…. but what are we comparing?

1.9 trillion US$ global subsidies for fossil fuels ; 0.5 billion for RE (VEF 2013)

India: cost of coal power generation equal to PV power generation (VEF 2013)

The importance of national policy as a catalyst for investment in renewable energy by giving orientations and (dis)incentives

A few ‘side’ effects Job and skills generation

Decentralized, small scale solutions fitting community endowments and needs transparency and accountability of decision making process

Environmental and health effect

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THANK YOU!