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will save 8,157 MWh/year of electricity (8 GWh/year) from the total use 27 GWh/year (2015 reference) and
will reduce GHG emissions by 2.8 tCO 2eq/y.
Component 5: Institutions’ capacity building is essential to prepare and oversee the implementation of
hotels/resorts conversion plan to NG and SWH.
Component 6: Awareness raising is vital to change the current mode of using non-clean fuel in hotels and
resorts to assist in the implementation of the plan and in transforming the city to be a green city,
hotels/resorts to run by natural gas not fossil fuel and heating water from solar.
4. Organization and procedures
Formal approval
The development of converting hotels and
resorts would require the following entities for
issuing permits, approvals and follow up
process:
- Ministry of Investment and International
Cooperation (MoIIC) to coordinate loans and
funding from IFIs,
- Ministry of Local Development (MoLD),
- MoERE–NREA for SWH installation on
hotels/resorts,
- Ministry of Petroleum represented by EGAS
and Ganoub el-Wady and Egypt Gas Company
– Luxor,
- Ministry of Tourism (MoTrm) represented by
the GTU,
- Ministry of Environment (MoEnv) to assess and
conduct the Environmental and Social Impact
Assessments (ESIAs) for the impact of
converting the hotels/resorts with renewable
energy such as SWH systems in accordance of
the Law No. 4/1994 and its amendments, the
Law on Protection of the Environment, and its
executive regulations,
- The EIA Department of the Environmental
Affairs Agency (EEAA) – MoEnv to conduct the
screening of ESIAs,
- Operation permit by MoPMRs and NREA for
buildings installations and modification,
- EGAS and EGC approvals to supply of natural
gas,
- City Council represented by the Governor, and
Staff allocated to implement and monitor action #4
• Governorate of Luxor and City of Luxor,
• City Council represented by the Governor,
• MoPMRs (EGAS, Ganoub el-Wady and Egypt Gas
Company),
• MoERE, NREA,
• MoTrm (GTU),
• MoTrm, and
• MoEnv (EEAA).
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