MaximsNewsNetwork: EGYPT: SOLAR ENERGY: CLEAN & CARBON-FREE

MaximsNewsNetwork: 22 September 2009 - Egypt's green house gas emissions are among the fastest growing the world. The country is now tapping international funds to reverse that trend.

In the Egyptian desert in a place called Kureimat, men are busy at work preparing to capture sun rays and turn them into energy. The solar project is clean and carbon-free. And Egypt has the resources needed to produce lots of it.

SOUNDBITE (English) Abd El Rahman Salah El Din, Chairman of Egypts National Renewable Energy Authority, Kureimat:
We have many capabilities: we have a huge desert, we have human resources, we have clouds only about nine or ten days a year, and our sun projection is very high because we are in the sun belt.

Egypt, the Arab Worlds most populated country, has some of the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world. The country is now trying to reverse that by diversifying and cleaning- its electric power production.




The Solar project at Kureimat is one of several renewable energy projects now underway in the country. Egypt tapped World Bank funds to finance Kureimat which is set to begin operation in 2010.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed al-Desouqi, Kureimat:
Its ready to collect sun and to concentrate sun to heat a fluid and from this heat you use some heat exchanger and from this heat exchanger you take the heat and start boiling the water to produce power.
Workers at are busy assembling the solar panel structures, made from imported, highly-resistant, thick glass panes and bases and frames made of steel.

The solar panel structures are set in rows that will soon take up 65 thousand square meters of desert space-only a beginning. Egypts top energy officials say the country is already planning a solar energy scale-up, as part of a regional plan extending across North Africa.

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