130218_Luxor-Egypt SECAP Final

consumption in such buildings could be cut by 30 per cent. Knowing that electricity consumption for cooling
and heating represent 70% of the public building electivity consumption it is strategic to invest on this issue,
in two directions: raising awareness of building users, switching to more efficient devices.
Renewable energy: Some of the potential sites have been identified, and there are already pilot projects to
test the benefit of solar PV with an installed capacity of 300 kWp. The Governorate of Luxor already
developed a strategic plan to develop renewable energy on its buildings, but this plan still needs to be
unrolled .
4.1.1.2 Energy savings / short-term actions (3 to 5 years time frame)
The Municipality is willing to develop initiatives to reduce energy consumption, but a consistent plan needs
to be implemented. More efforts should be done in raising staff awareness on simple change of behaviour
to save energy without significant investment:
- Open curtains and window shutters during daytime to avoid artificial lighting when outside air
temperature is between 22°C and 27°C,
- Keep the inside air temperature between 24°C - 25°C even in hot period to ensure good comfort all
year long and make strong cut in energy consumption,
- Avoid elevator and choosing staircase when going up or down one or two floors, only allow
employee with health problems to use elevators,
- Turn off electric equipment at end of working time or when not actually used, and
- Unplug all electricity cables from wall’s sockets as this could save about 5% of the energy use.
It would be interesting to promote a challenge between services/units to invite all workers from the
Governorate to make significant efforts in saving energy.
The best performing service would be celebrated as “energy saver/climate saver’’ and would get a special
gratification. The Environmental Awareness Unit (EAU) within the Governorate Communication Department
will promote these activities.
4.1.1.3 Energy-savings / long-term actions (5 to 15 years’ time frame)
Beyond promoting awareness and behavioural change, it is necessary to develop a clear and comprehensive
plan to replace old devices and equipment and install energy efficient systems that will help reducing
electricity consumption. Ideally, this programme should be implemented, in a first phase, in a small number
of buildings (starting with the more symbolic one: the main Governor’s building or city hall), covering all type
of devices and equipment, in order to concentrate many initiatives on the selected buildings and
demonstrate the benefit of these structural changes:
- Switch from AC/Heating reverse systems to central management of heating and cooling; and
- Switch to LED lighting and install motion sensors in offices. This device turns the lights off during unoccupied
periods. This can reduce lighting consumption by 20%-80% depending on the occupancy type
of these areas. A case study, by MoERE and UNDP (Wati Al-watt initiative), was conducted in public
buildings including government buildings in Cairo, demonstrates that a 9.5 million KWh saving per year
equivalent to 5.6 million EGP (€ 265,260) cut could be easily achieved by installing LED lamps with
different wattage in 22 projects in the first phase at an approximate investment rate per project of
50