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- Turn off electric equipment at the end of working time or when not actually in use, and
- Unplug all electricity cables from wall’s sockets as this could save about 5 per cent of the energy use,
- It would be interesting to promote a challenge between services/units to invite all workers from the
Governorate to make efforts to save energy and cut GHG emissions. The best performing service would be
celebrated as “energy saver/ climate saver’’ and would get a special gratification.
- The Environmental Awareness Unit (EAU) to be set up within the Governorate to promote these activities in
coordination with the Governorate related staff.
Component 2: 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), but 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.
- Switch to LED lighting installation and incorporate motion sensors in offices of Governorate buildings. This
device turns the lights off during un-occupied periods. This can reduce lighting consumption by 20% to 80%
depending on the occupancy type of these spaces.
These technical solutions need to be tightly monitored to register impacts on energy consumption reduction to prepare
progressive enlargement to a larger number of targeted building.
Assumptions:
- 1 LED Lamp costs 75 EGP (3.60 €) and reduces lighting consumption by 70%
- A Solar PV unit of 1KW costs 1,300 €) and produces 1898 kWh/y.
- According to Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), the Feed in Tariffs for 2017 are as follows:
• 108.58 piasters (0.053 €) per 1kWh for commercial activities less than 500 kWh,
• 7.88 piasters (0.004 €) per 1 kWh from Solar PV power plant 500 kW to less than 20 MW.
Switch to LED lamps and sensor systems: Assuming a replacement of 20,000 LED lamps in Governorate buildings
including schools (70 buildings), i.e., on average 275 LED lamp per building, we would need 72,000 € for replacing
conventional lamps by LED. This switch will result in saving of 364 MWh/y and 199 tCO2eq/y.
Switching to more efficient AC devices: Switch from AC/Heating reverse systems to central management of
cooling/heating in these buildings is estimated at 150,000 €. This will result in saving 546 MWh/y and 299 tCO2eq/y.
Solar Water Heating (SWH) systems: Basic assumption: a 300 litres production unit with three collectors offering 6.75
square meters’ produces 5 MWh/y. With a basic cost of € 582 while substituting to electricity the payback period will
be 40 months (3 years + 3 months).
A rough calculation for one Governorate building with 100 staff and 25 visitors a day on average would need 2,500
litres per day of hot water (20 litres per person). Such needs can be covered by 8 SWH units (300 litres and three panels
- 2.50m x 0.9m each) requiring a total surface of 55 square meters at a cost of 8 x € 582 = € 4,656.
This equipment will produce 50,600 kWh/y to be substituted to electricity consumption saving 28 tCO2eq/y.
Considering additional equipment and connection to the water grid the overall cost for such a building would be 5K€.
Applying this model to 10 Governorate buildings, the required investment would be 50,000 € allowing a production
capacity equivalent to 500 MWh/y. Hence, avoiding a cost of 370 kEGP (17.620 €/y), meaning a return on investment
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