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Ext. of Abbas El-Akkad St , Hay El-Zohour (P.O. Box: 4544 Masakin Dobbat Elsaff, El-Hay El-Sades)
Nasr City, Cairo
Egypt
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Phone: +20 2 2725891
Fax: +20 2 2717173
http://www.nrea.gov.eg/

established in 1986 under the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, NREA is a national focal point for expanding efforts to introduce and develop renewable energy technologies to Egypt on commercial scale along with deepening the local capabilities to use, produce and develop its equipment in different applied fields, thus contributing to limit fossil fuel use and, protecting the environment from pollution

Securing energy demand on a secure basis

Indigenous renewable energy sources in Egypt are mainly wind, solar and biomass

In 1982 RE strategy as integral part of the national energy planning

The target is to cover 3% of the national electric demand with RE by the year 2010

Measures for development activities:

• RE Resource Assessment and Planning
• Research, Development, Demonstration and Testing of the different Technologies
• Transfer of Technology, development of local industry and application of mature technologies
• Establishment of testing and certification facilities and development of local standards and codes
• Education, Training and Information dissemination programs
• Taking advantage of renewable energy environmental benefits allowing financial support of its projects implementation through various mechanisms such as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), financing RE incremental cost, soft loans, mixed credits etc.

1. Actor:

   Energy agency

2. Sector:

   Biomass, Photovoltaics, Renewable energy (general), Wind energy

3. Activity:

   Egypt