280218_Luxor-Egypt SECAP Final_revised

City of Luxor – Governorate of Luxor Priority Action # 3 for SECAP
1. General presentation
3. Green Residential Buildings Plan
# 3
Summary of the Action Residential Buildings in the City of Luxor
The residential buildings’ sector in the City of Luxor is the second highest
sector in terms of energy consumption (25% and 1,243 GWh/y) and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (31% and 501 kteqCO 2/y).
The Luxor Electricity Distribution Company (LEPCo) distributes the electricity
used in residential buildings. The City of Luxor counts with 159,604 residential
units (2005 reference).
The residential buildings consume a total of 690,697 MWh of electricity
annually, with a connection rate of 100%. Natural gas consumption of the
sector reaches 147 m 3 /building with an annual consumption of 2,250,465 LPG
cylinders and a connection rate of 60% (more connections are underway),
whereas tertiary buildings consume 70,680 cylinders/ year.
Action Summary
The City of Luxor wants to move forward to holistically solve the challenges to
be faced in the residential sector by adopting the “Green Residential Plan”
(GRP) promoting a sustainable approach in residential buildings combining
energy efficiency and renewable energy development – solar PV and SWH
systems.
Location: City of Luxor
Start date: December 2017
Project lifetime: 5 years
End: December 2022
Estimated cost €
Technical expertise 30,000 €
Revolving funds
- Management cost 500 K€
- Lamps replacement 1,152
K€
- SWH development 2,000
K€
- Building retrofitting 2,000
K€
The Action Plan #3 is to green the Building sector in the City of Luxor.
General Objectives of the project
The Green Residential Plan aims to reduce energy consumption and GHG
emissions through an awareness programme to enhance users’ behaviours on
the saving tools and methods and a major investment plan to improve building
energy efficiency. This action is also designed to promote renewable energy
sources: solar PV and solar water heating (SWH). SWH systems will avoid using
electricity to warm water, which is not efficient and very costly when the sun
is available at no cost.
Status of the Action:
• New
• Planned
• Following previous action.
The necessary awareness plan can be unrolled in phases focusing on 2 priority
targets - Governorate staff and building users (including mothers and children)
to:
• Inform on issues related to energy management and climate change,
• Provide guidance to behavioural changes to reduce energy
consumption,
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