Country Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy CEDRO Demonstration Project for the Recovery of CEDRO, with energy efficiency on our mind ISSUE # 5 AUGUST 2011 CEDRO LAUNCHES THE NATIONAL WIND ATLAS REPORT fter much anticipation, the “National Wind Atlas of Lebanon” concluded that harnessing the wind blowing over Lebanon can A generate at least 1,500 MW of power, increasing the momentum to set up Lebanon’s first wind farm. “We have a huge potential and we can benefit from wind energy,” Energy and Water Minister Jibran Bassil said at a conference held on 25 February at the Metropolitan Grand Hotel in . “These findings and this study give us hope. No one should expect that the solution to Lebanon’s energy problems will come from wind alone, yet a diverse energy basket including wind power would help ensure energy security,” he continued.

The map is the first of its kind and is expected to entice private firms to invest in the energy sector. It was drawn in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Water and executed by GL Garrad Hassan. Spanish Ambassador Juan Carlos Gafo told the conference that MADINATI COMPETITION Spain was playing a “key role in transferring expertise to Lebanon, as it has funded the three stages of CEDRO, with USD 9.73 million EDRO is funding “Madinati Khadraa,” the first national green going to reducing the national burdens on energy and improving competition to take place among municipalities, in collaboration lighting methods.” C with the Youth Shadow Government 5. Municipalities are invited to submit a Renewable Energy project before 30 September 2011 for “What Spain is doing affirms the country’s commitment to enabling a chance to win one of three project grants of LBP 60,000,000 each. Lebanon to combat climate change,” he said. The competition objectives are: With the publication of the wind atlas map, and with the presence of an • Building capacity for the innovation and development of renewable increasing number of private sector players willing to invest in potential energy and energy efficiency projects, which contribute to the sites they have assessed, it is time to set the legal and regulatory clean development of municipalities frameworks to enable a competitive licensing scheme to assist in filling • Reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions the energy deficit, detaching Lebanon’s absolute dependency on • Raising awareness of alternative energy and energy efficiency imported oil, and improving the ‘green credentials’ of the state. applications • Increasing the exposure of municipal green projects, and thus, increasing funding potentials • Reducing the need for back-up power generation and reducing CEDRO Demonstration Project for the Recovery of Lebanon the pressure on the National Electricity Utility grid The National • Building resilience against climate change Wind Atlas of Lebanon The competition criteria are: • Small-scale projects of a maximum value of LBP 60,000,000 • Innovation and creativity • Reproducibility in other municipalities in the region • The amount of savings in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions • Environmental impact • The pay-back period of the project • The project risks The evaluation of the project will be carried out by a panel of experts in renewable energy and energy efficiency applications both from the CEDRO project and from the Youth Shadow Government 5. This 252 January 2011 will be the first time the CEDRO project does not advise on which renewable energy or energy efficiency projects will be implemented, but will rather take proposals from the beneficiaries themselves.

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UNDP is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. THE FIRST GROUND SOURCE HEAT THE SHI FAMILY CHARITABLE PUMP IN FOUNDATION DONATES he CEDRO project is currently working on implementing USD 60,000 TO CEDRO a Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) project at the Bejjeh T Municipality, located in the Jbeil district at an altitude of 600 he Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Suntech meters. The project is the first to be constructed in Lebanon. It aims Dr. Zhengrong Shi donated USD 60,000 through the Shi Family to assist in providing the Heating, Cooling and Domestic Hot Water T Charitable Foundation (SFCF) to implement photovoltaic needs of the new Bejjeh Municipal Building, which is currently systems in Lebanon. Suntech is the world’s largest crystalline silicon under construction. photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer. The donation was part of the 2010 Zayed Future Energy Prize of USD 350,000 awarded to Dr. The ground source heat pump is a central heating and cooling Shi for guiding Suntech to become what it is today. system that pumps heat to or from the ground. It uses the earth as a heat source (in the winter) or a heat sink (in the summer). The design CEDRO highly appreciates this donation, and has selected three takes advantage of the moderate temperatures in the ground to schools to benefit from the SFCF 1.8 KWP systems: Intermediate boost efficiency and reduce the operational costs of heating and School, Jran Intermediate School, and Kfarhelta Public School. The cooling systems. GSHP uses one unit of electricity to produce 4-5 systems will be commissioned before the end of 2011. units of heat or cooling. For even more efficiency, the electricity to be used for the GSHP will be generated from solar panels, making it a truly renewable energy source. CEDRO PUBLISHES PAPER ON WIND POWER FOR THE UPCOMING WORLD ENGINEERS’ CONVENTION he capacity credit (defined as the amount of conventional Ehmej Intermediate Public School Kfarhelda Secondary Public School energy supply that can be displaced by wind, as this does T not occur on a MW-to-MW basis) and economic implications of integrating various wind power scenarios in the Lebanese CEDRO ENGINEERS AT SUNTECH electricity systems were assessed in a paper written by the CEDRO team in collaboration with an engineering student at the American wo CEDRO engineers were invited by Suntech to attend a training University of Beirut, and accepted by the World Engineers’ workshop on several aspects of the photovoltaic technology at Convention to be held in September in Geneva. The main results T the company headquarters in Wuxi, China. indicate that the capacity credit of wind yielded 36.4%, 32% and 26% for 99MW, 249MW, and 498MW wind power penetration levels The training covered many topics, including PV technology and the respectively. This means that a 99 MW, 249 MW and 498 MW wind latest advances in the field. It also presented the future outlook of the farm can displace 36 MW, 80 MW and 129 MW of conventional technology, proper installations and how to maintain the systems, supply. This is an important finding for capacity planning. The and other important aspects of PV technology installation and economics of wind power was thereafter calculated using the maintenance. capacity credit of wind, the saved fuel expenses, and the social cost of carbon. Results were very positive when using a lower discount Several site visits were on the program, such as a visit to the company’s rate of 5%, whereas with a 10% discount rate the results were manufacturing plant accompanied by a comprehensive explanation strongly correlated to the price of fuel oil and the addition of the of all the processes involved in PV module production, and a visit to a social cost of carbon. large-scale photovoltaic plant of 10 MW that was installed by Suntech.

THE SUN SHINES ON LEBANESE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS tudents and teachers of 25 public schools in Lebanon are benefitting from a constant supply of electricity in their S classrooms and offices due to the installation of photovoltaic (PV) systems implemented by CEDRO, providing an alternative and cleaner source of energy. See the list and map at the end of this newsletter. The inauguration of the PV systems took place at Kfour Governmental School, in the caza of Nabatieh, under the auspices of the Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Mr. Juan Carlos Gafo, UNDP Country Director Mr. Shomby Sharp, and Ms. Nashat Habhab, Regional Educational Manager, representing the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The event was open to all students in the South of Lebanon who are aged between six and 12, and who attend schools in which CEDRO has implemented a PV project. Three hundred students attended the event in each of the South, Akkar, and the Bekaa, totaling 900 students. The inauguration also drew the attention of children and parents to the importance of energy conservation through a theatrical performance of a comedy by Bee Event. The Little Engineer, a company committed to providing an educational environment for young children and teens through entertainment, directed workshops and demonstrated the effectiveness of solar-powered houses, teaching the 900 students to build miniature solar-powered houses. “Installing these systems must come with ingraining the necessary awareness of the relationship between climate change, energy efficiency, and renewable energy,” said UNDP Country Director Shomby Sharp. “We may think that the school children here cannot afford to purchase renewable energy systems, and therefore we should not really be building awareness on something that many Thirty-six more PV sites are being implemented by CEDRO across cannot presently afford. However the children here are between Lebanon, 17 of which are in schools. six and 12 years old. In 1980, the cost of PV panels was around USD 22,000 per KW. Today, they cost USD 4,000 per KW. I believe that in These systems are providing energy autonomy for schools across 10-15 years, when these school children are working grown-ups, PV Lebanon. Given that average blackouts in Lebanon amount to six systems will be a competitive choice for these young kids,” he added. hours per day but can last for much longer in some regions, the PV systems are providing schools with constant power supply. Many The CEDRO project, which is funded by the government of Spain, schools have told CEDRO that they no longer use back-up diesel for is part of a larger program being carried out by UNDP to assist in their electricity generation during blackouts, relying entirely on the PV the country’s recovery from the 2006 conflict with , which system. The systems work best as schools turn on their photocopying devastated the livelihoods of thousands of people, disrupted the machines and other appliances when the sun is shining the brightest, education of all school-aged children, and destroyed a large part of as it does for at least 300 days per year in Lebanon. the infrastructure in the South. CEDRO - LIST OF PV BENEFICIARY SITES: 2007-2011

CEDRO - PHASE 1: Akkar THE PV MAP

Nr. Institution’s Name Region PV Capacity OF CEDRO 1.1 Rajem Issa Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.2 Mashta hamoud School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.3 Kherbet Daoud Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.4 El Tleile Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.5 Hekr El Dahiri Public School Akkar 1.125 kWp 1.6 Ouyoun El Samak Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.7 Kroum Arab Public School Akkar 1.125 kWp 1.8 Ain Yaakoub Mixed Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.9 Habshit Public School Akkar 1.125 kWp 1.10 Meniara Public School for Girls Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.11 El Hakoor Mixed Public School Akkar 1.125 kWp

Bekaa

Nr. Institution’s Name Region PV Capacity 2.1 Baalbak First Elementary Bekaa 1.125 kWp 2.2 Chmestar Community Center Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.3 Hosh El Harime Intermediate School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.4 Jeb Jennine Municipality and Library Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.5 Public School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.6 Hosh El Oumara Community Center Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.7 Aana Intermediate Public School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 2.8 Tell Zounoub Intermediate School Bekaa 1.125 kWp

South

Nr. Institution’s Name Region PV Capacity 3.1 Ayteet Public School South 1.125 kWp 3.2 Kherbet Selem First Public School South 1.8 kWp 3.3 Kfarkela First Public School South 1.125 kWp Completed 3.4 Kfarshouba Intermediate School South 1.8 kWp Ongoing 3.5 Houla Municipality South 1.125 kWp Planned 3.6 Ain Ebel Municipality South 1.125 kWp CEDRO - PHASE 3:

CEDRO - PHASE 2: Nr. Institution’s Name Region PV Capacity 1.1 Al Mafadel Public School Akkar 1.8 kWp 1.2 Jwar El Hashish Public School Akkar 1.1 kWp Nr. Institution’s Name Region PV Capacity 1.3 Al Nour Public School - Mina North 1.1 kWp 1.1 Hammana Community Center Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 1.4 Gebrayel Municipality Akkar 1.1 kWp 1.2 Shiah Secondary Public School Beirut 1.8 kWp 1.5 Ijdabra Municipality North 1.1 kWp 1.3 Kherbet Kanafar Municipality Bekaa 1.8 kWp 1.6 Ibreen Municipality North 1.8 kWp 1.4 El Intermediate School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 1.7 Khraybet El Metn Public School Metn 1.8 kWp 1.5 Baalback Barracks Bekaa 1.1 kWp 1.8 Municipality Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 1.6 El Kalaa Community Center Shouf 2.0 kWp 1.9 Akoura Municipality Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 1.7 Shouf Technical School Shouf 1.1 kWp 2.0 Jeb Jennine Secondary School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 1.8 Khelwet Public School Shouf 1.1 kWp 2.1 Manara Secondary School Bekaa 1.8 kWp 1.9 Kfour public school South 2.0 kWp 2.2 Municipality Bekaa 1.1 kWp 2.0 Ehmej Intermediate School Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 2.3 Ain Deleb Public School South 1.8 kWp 2.1 Zouk Mosbeh Intermediate School Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 2.4 Ayta El Shaeb Municipality South 1.1 kWp 2.2 Keyfoun Public School Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 2.5 Bouday Municipality Bekaa 1.1 kWp 2.3 Kartaba Municipality Mt Lebanon 1.8 kWp 2.6 Nabatieh Public School South 1.8 kWp 2.4 Selaata Public School Mt Lebanon 1.1 kWp 2.7 Al Ein Municipality Bekaa 1.1 kWp 2.5 Jran Intermediate School North 1.8 kWp 2.8 Al Taybeh Municipality South 1.1 kWp 2.6 Kfarhelta Public School North 1.8 kWp 2.9 Kabrikha Public School South 1.1 kWp 2.10 Kantara Municipality South 1.1 kWp