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design and implement an adequate energy-retrofitting plan for residential buildings in the City of Hurghada -
Governorate of Red Sea should engage in the following steps:
- Assess the need through a detailed mapping of housing units, registering average energy consumption per
square meter, date of construction and orientation,
- Train small local companies that will have the flexibility to work in different type of conditions while performing
adequate retrofitting programmes, the result in significant energy reduction,
- Develop a partnership with a bank acting as a “third party investor” that will support the investment (for
example through a process where the bank will cover the cost of the loan from a part of the savings allowed by
the retrofitting programme),
- Promote retrofitting in selected targets offering the best potential in terms of return on investment and,
elaborating on these showcases further deploy the plan.
LED lighting - Considering the pilot phase of 50 buildings representing 1000 housing units of similar capacity, and
assuming each unit has 25 lamps, replacement requires 25,000 LED lamps. Given the cost of 75 EGP (3.62 € per lamp),
the total cost for 1000 units amount to 1,875,000 EGP (90,000 €). These LED lamps would save at least 70% of the energy
consumed for lighting (i.e. 20% of electricity consumption in residential buildings).
An average housing unit consumes 4,575 kWh/y of which lighting is 915 kWh/y. Switching to LED cuts by 640 kWh/y.
Electricity consumption reduction for 1000 units represents 640 MWh/y and avoids 351 tCO2eq/y.
SWH Systems - One building represents in average 20 housing units occupied by 20 families, each encompassing 4
persons each. Such a family would need 70 gallons per day (265 litres) of which 25 gallons day (95 litres) need to be hot
water. This means for one building 95 x 20 = 1,900 litres of hot water per day, requiring at least 20 collectors or 7 SWH
units (sets of 3 collectors (2.50m x 0.9m) with a 300 litres tank). Such a unit costs 12,000 EGP (582.00 €) (all inclusive).
The SWH cost per building will be then 84,000 EGP (4,074 €) producing 18,400 kWh/y and avoiding 10 tCO2eq/y. Avoided
electricity consumption represents 648 €/y allowing a 6 years R.o.I (at 2017 electricity price).
Note: SWH systems can be assigned to one family or preferably manage collectively, as this will be far more energy
efficient. Then the building manager will ensure the proper maintenance of equipment and will ensure adequate
payment of hot water consumption per households to reimburse the initial investment and cover maintenance cost.
Such a payment will be cheaper than the electricity consumed for the same service as price of electricity goes up.
The pilot phase of 1000 housing units, in 50 buildings represents:
• 203,700 € investment for 50 x 7 SWH units,
• 920 MWh/y avoided electricity consumption, and
• 504 tCO2eq avoided GHG.
Energy Efficiency measures – Housing refurbishment
Beyond raising awareness, switching lamps to LED and promoting SWH, there are basic refurbishment actions that will
lead to further energy consumption reduction in housing units. Such actions can entail: switching AC to more efficient
device, improving ventilation, and tacking advantage of natural light. A lump sum of 12,600 EGP (600 €) will be allocated
for each housing unit included in the pilot phase.
In average, a housing unit consumes 4,575 kWh/y of electricity meaning 3,390 EGP/y (161 €/y) and 3,258 kWh/y of fossil
fuel (natural gas, liquid gas, fuel) at a cost of 1,238 EGP (59 €/y). As refurbishment could allow a 40% cut in energy
consumption, the annual saving would reach 1,851 EGP/y - 40% of annual expenses at 4,628 EGP/y - meaning 88 € (40%
of 220 €/y). Compare to the initial investment of 12,600 EGP we will have a 6 years RoI (more or less depending on
variation of energy costs).
The pilot phase (1,000 housing units) will require and investment of 600,000 € offering an energy efficiency gain of
3,186 MWh/y and avoiding 1,326 tCO2eq/y and saving
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