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- Ensure energy consumption reduction and the integration of renewable energy development into all
activities and projects taking place in its territory in order to reduce fossil-based energy consumption.
- Promote energy cost-benefit analyses (including cost of externalities) in on-going and future projects.
- Set an example in terms of responsible energy management, especially by promoting concrete
initiatives in energy efficiency and energy conservation, research and innovation towards sustainable
practices, efficient and climate friendly infrastructure development, etc.
- Partnerships: encourage citizens, private sector, NGO participation in the development and
management of energy resources and renewables in the Governorate (Municipality), and
- Educate and inform the local population and actors about the new Governorate (municipal) vision in
favour of energy efficiency and renewables.
3.5. City of Luxor vision and objectives
Keeping in mind its specific values and the local context, the City of Luxor develops a strategy consistent with
Egypt’s Vision 2030, the Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 and national energy strategy 2035. This
strategy is structured around two levers:
- Reduce energy consumption in all sectors through energy conservation and efficiency, in order to
provide better services while reducing costs and impacts; and
- Promote energy production from locally available renewable resources in order to cover as far as
possible energy needs from these decarbonised sources.
Obviously, this strategy will assist the Governorate to reduce its dependency on energy supplies from outside
its territory and consequently reducing its financial needs to fund these supplies. The strategy will also
generate additional resources within the Governorate boundaries through energy production from local and
renewable resources. All of the activities that take place within the Governorate will have to include an
energy consumption reduction component and when possible an appropriate a renewable energy
development component. While contributing to the protection of the national and global environment
(reducing GHG emission to mitigate climate change), these measures also strive to protect the local
environment (air and water quality, cleanliness and soil protection).
In conformity with current regulations, the Governorate desires to promote a mix of incentive and coercive
measures. These measures are obviously in accordance with the municipal code and public policies that
favour local development and the protection of energy resources and the environment.
As energy consumption and production is dependent on many stakeholders within a given territory, the
strategy needs to include all of the concerned actors: public services, local entrepreneurs and companies,
including tourism operators, citizen groups, etc. On-going information and awareness raising actions must
lead to the strengthening of energy consumption reduction commitments and increasing the production of
local renewable energy by actors operating in the Governorate of Luxor and the City of Luxor.
The Governorate adopted the following strategic objectives within the framework of its Sustainable Energy
and Climate Action Plan (SECAP):
1. Reinforce and promote energy efficiency in municipal property, public infrastructure and other local
activities.
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