RCREEE launching Workshop 29-30 January 2008

1. MENA Center for Renewable
Energy and Energy Efficiency
MCREEE
Cairo seminar,
January 29-30, 2008
Dr. Burghard Claus & Wolfgang Mostert

2. MCREE Demand Study - Criteria
Demand: latent (potential) versus expressed
1. Is RE and EE an important part of energy
policy?
2. Is there a need for MENA South-South
cooperation in RE and EE?
3. Is that need covered by existing regional
organisations and cooperation programs?
4. In what areas could MCREEE provide value-
added?

3. MCREEE Demand Study - Results
• RE and EE part of main stream policy
• All have interesting REEE concepts they are
willing to share; recognition of quality in other
MENA countries is evolving
• Focus on North-South cooperation; good
benefits despite being North-driven, but more
South-initiatives could give greater benefits
• Think Tank needs: policy instruments, PPP
concepts, technology policy
• Interest in MCREEE will increase once the first
outputs and results demonstrate value-added

4. MCREEE Focal Areas
RE & EE Policy
and Strategy
MCEERE
Technology PPPs for
Policy Implementation
(national +
transfer)

5. MCREEE-Target Groups
Private Project Developers
Manufacturers of RE- Government Policy
RCREEE Makers
Technology
Consulting Firms Students
Service Providers
(Installers, O&M)

6. Activities: RE & EE Policy
• Status Quo for RE&EE in MENA Countries. Review of Market
Penetration, Policies, Regulatory & Financing Frameworks,
Manufacturing, Consulting and Research Capacities, Macro-
Economic Impacts.
• Comparison of RE and EE-Laws (adopted or in Draft Form) in MENA
Countries.
• Enforcement Issues with EE Regulations - what factors are blocking
implementation and what can be done: training of inspectors?
simplification of building regulations? awareness raising material?
• Comparative Review of Incentive Policies for RE&EE in MENA and
in EU Countries. Cost-and Impact Effectiveness of reviewed
Schemes
• Regulations and Planning for Public Lighting and Commercial Street
Lights.
• Benchmarking of EE in major energy consuming industries in MENA
Countries, comparison with International Benchmarking
• Labelling of Buildings as an Instrument for EE
• Review of unexploited Co-generation and Stand-by Generation
Potential in MENA countries and Use of interruptible Power
Purchase Contracts.

7. Activities: R&D & Technology Transfer
• Comparative Analysis of International Policies
and Strategies to create local Manufacturing of
Wind-turbines and Wind Turbine Components:
China, Spain, India. Brasil
• Review of RE&EE Technology Cooperation of
MENA Country Manufacturers with non-MENA
companies
• Review of Strategy that turned China from
being a marginal producer of Solar PV-
Technology to becoming the World’s leading
Exporter within less than10 Years

8. Activities: PPP and Training
• Comparative Analysis of PPPs for EE applied in
MENA-countries: Lessons learned
• Comparative analysis of solar water heater
promotion programs in MENA countries and
benchmarking against programs in Spain, Greece
and Israel.
• Analysis of Prospects for expanding the ESCO-
concept in MENA Countries in Scope as well as in
Scale
• Use of Energy Supply Companies to promote Energy
Efficiency at Consumer Premises
• Involvement of Financial sector in financing EE
• Review of World-Wide Experiences with PPPs for
EE: desk-study supplemented by PEER-interviews

9. Criteria for MCREEE Structure
1. Governance and Organisation
• Regional (no individual country dominance,
donor supported but MENA-driven, nationally
anchored)
• Autonomy (independence from individual
governments in programming and execution)
• Ability to channel stakeholder needs into
decision taking
• Transparancy in contracting and neutrality in
tendering

10. Criteria for MCREEE Structure
2. Legal status
• Favouring long-term lifetime/sustainability
• Ability to bid in tenders (legal person)
• Facilitating recruitment of non-Egyptian
staff (resident status, work permit, tax-
free salary for long-term staff?)
(will be included in TOR for legal task-force)

11. Criteria for MCREEE Structure
3. Finance
• Core finance: basic funding by
participating governments and donors of
basic activities (salaries of long-term
staff, operating cost, annual report and
bi-annual MENA status report)
• Commercial contracts (overheads)
• Increasing co-financing by governments
of participation in MCREEE seminars

12. MCREEE Governance & Organisation
Council of Trustees
(one representative from each participating MENA country)
Executive Board
MCREEE Director
International Advisor
Support Unit Technology REEE Policy PPP+Train. Associated
-adm.secret. Researchers
-Book-keep.
- website National
-Ass.students Networks