MaximsNewsNetwork: EGYPT WIND POWER & CLIMATE CHANGE & COPENHAGEN: WORLD BANK

MaximsNewsNetwork: 07 December 2009 - World Bank: As the International Summit on Climate Change kicks off today in Copenhagen, there's news from Egypt that it aims to generate one fifth of its electricity from renewable sources, including wind power, by 2020. To help reach that ambitious goal, it is tapping into a World Bank Clean Technology Fund.

Turbines at this Egyptian wind farm turn in the strong, hot wind blowing off the Red Sea, producing power that is fed into the electrical grid.
Today, wind power supplies only a fraction of Egypts electricity.
But with demand for power growing by up to eight percent a year, more wind farms are being built.
SOUNDBITE( English) Abou Bakr Abdel Hameed Mohamed, General Manager for Maintenance, Zafarana Wind Farm:
The amount of wind energy right now its one percent. It will be 12 percent by 2020.
The building and managing of wind farms has until now been government run. In order to quickly expand, the government is commercializing its wind program.
It knows exactly where new windmills need to go.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abd El Rahman Salah El Din, Chairman , National Renewable Energy Agency, Egypt:
"We were able to learn from initial experiments what kinds of turbines, what kind of wind mills, and towers and we gained the technical ability to come up with a resource map for Egypt and the Suez Canal area which shows that these areas have the highest wind speeds in the world, ten-and-a-half meters per second.
The World Bank is helping Egypt scale up wind energy development by opening it up to private companies and by supporting construction of a 300 kilometre long transmission line linking a future wind farm to the grid.
A growing population is driving an increasing demand for power. As that increase is being met by burning more fossil fuels, the countrys greenhouse gas emissions are among the fastest-growing in the world.
Electricity and traffic account for almost two thirds of those emissions.
Along with water and solar power, wind power provides a clean and renewable alternative.
Egypt aims to provide a fifth of its total power from renewable energy in the next ten years. And it could lead North African and Middle Eastern neighbors to follow in its footsteps.

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[ciceromatrix]

great video. lets do this all over the world