Innovation week, Roadmap for renewables in palestine tubas as a model

Road Map for Renewables In Palestine
Tubas as a Model
Euro – Mediterranean innovation workshop
Casablanca , Morocco
March 3 , 2015
1 Road Map for Renewables in Palestine

Road Map for Renewables In Palestine
Tubas as a Model
Contents:
- Introduction.
- Current situation of energy in Palestine.
- Renewable energy in Palestine.
- National renewable energy strategy.
- Challenges and obstacles.
- Tubas electricity experience (successful Story)
- Recommendation.

Abstract
Palestinians are living in abnormal conditions and they are not living in comfortable conditions
just to mention one aspect they import most of their energy from neighboring countries
(Israel, Jordan and Egypt) and as a result they pay a lot of money and the supplying sources
aren't dependable and secure due to political Sensitivities saying so our country is one of the
richest in Sun radiation, over 3000 hours yearly, so lets get all the benefits of mother nature,
develop, our economy and improve quality of living for our people.
Project Description:-
Increase public awareness about renewable energy in order to use it more to achieve the goals of
the Palestinian Authority which are:
• Achieve the target of 25% of renewable energy in 2020.
• Improve the environmental conditions of Palestine.
• Sustainable development of economy by creating new jobs and saving money.
• Be in line with international norms and regulations about energy.
So, If every country has a choice to diversify the sources of energy Palestine MUST have such a choice.

Current Situation Of Energy
The main Characteristics of the energy sector as follows:-
• Nearly all the electricity is purchased from Israel (88%).
• The electricity system especially in the west bank consist of numerous isolated distribution
system and are not integrated into distribution network.
• Electrical energy account for 22% of the total energy.
• The growth of energy consumption is about 7% annually.
• Power supply and distribution is the responsibility of municipal councils and distribution
companies.
• There are 6 distribution companies which are ( Gedco, Jedco, Hepco, Selco, Tdeco and Nedco)
• All distribution companies purchase the energy from IEC on M.V network 22Kv or 33Kv

Current Situation Of Energy
• Small portion of electricity is purchased from Jordan supplying Jericho (20Mw).
• Small portion of electricity is purchased from Egypt supplying Rafah (25 Mw).
• Palestine Electricity Regulatory Council (PERC) was formed in the year 2011.
• Last year (2014) Palestinian Electricity Transmission CO. Ltd (PETL) was launched
(Government Owned)
• On March 2012 Palestine Solar initiative (PSI) and solar energy strategy were
launched.
• Some Important Figures in West bank and Gaza.

West Bank:
• Is supplied by IEC grid through 251 connection points (60 in south, 156 north, 35 in middle).
• Total electricity purchased from IEC 3500 GWH.
• Maximum load in 2013 was 850 MW
• Number of consumers 550000.
• 70% of the load for residential and commercial customers, 30% industrial and others
• About 97.5% is purchased from IEC 2.5% from Jordan.
• Losses 24%.

Gaza:
• Is supplied by IEC grid through 10 points.
• Total electricity consumption from IEC 1500 MWH.
• Maximum load in 2013 350 MW.
• Number of consumer 200,000
• 70% of the load for residential and commercial customers 30% for industrial and others.
• 35% of power is purchased from IEC, 22% from power plant in Gaza, 8% from Egypt.
• 35% is shortage of power.
• Losses 35%.

Overview of Renewable Energy Resources and Application in Palestine.
Renewable Energy in Palestine
The main renewable energy resources considered to have potential in Palestine are:
• Solar Energy.
• Wind Energy.
• Biomass.
• Geothermal

ENERGY SITUATION
Due to the absence of fossil fuel resources, Palestine has to import most its needs of electrical energy
from the Israeli Electric Corporation (IEC).
III PROSPECTS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY USAGE IN PALESTINE
The utilization of renewable energies is one of the strongest alternatives in Palestine due to absence of
fossil fuel resources.
Indigenous energy resources are quite limited to solar energy for photovoltaic and thermal applications
(mainly for water heating). Biomass (wood and agricultural waste) is traditionally utilized for cooking
and heating in rural areas. Utilization of geothermal technology could be feasible in Palestine as a
source of energy for heating and cooling where several pilot projects have been implemented in the
residential and commercial sector and energy saving could reach a big amount.. Utilization of wind
energy could be feasible in some locations (according to recent data taken from measurements
stations), for small - scale wind capacity turbines and water pumping.

1. Photovoltaic electricity (PV).
Photovoltaic electrification is limitedly used in different rural areas in Palestine mainly for schools, clinics,
Bedouins communities, agricultural and animal farms, and private homes. The total installed capacity is about
4000KWP
2. Solar water heating
Solar water heaters (SWH) are extensively used in the residential sector in Palestine (more than 72% of house
holds use solar family systems), whereas, it is limited in the service (hospitals, hotels, universities) and
industry sectors. About 50% of hospitals and hotels depend on electricity and petroleum products for water
heating, and those equipped with SWH can only cover 40% and 25% of their demand from hot water by solar
in hospitals and hotels, respectively. The existing installed capacity (up to year 2007, PCBS) in all sectors is
totaled more than 1,500,000 m2 (the 2nd highest in the region). The market of SWH can be doubled if proper
policy with efficient financial scheme is adapted for promotion and encouragement the use of solar collective
systems, beside improvement and control of the quality.
The vacuum tube collectors are recently invaded the local market it is considered a new technology and
very few systems are installed so far .

3. Wind Energy
In 2010 three modern wind measuring stations were installed in the north (Tubas, near Nablus),
central (Salfeet, near Ramallah) and south (hospital, near Hebron) regions of the West Bank.
The collected data from the new stations are promising, thus, it is not
representative at this stage.
However, based on the available data for these sites it looks that wind speed may reach
5 m/s in some sites, with relatively good potential of more than 200 W/m2 (class 4 or more from
the wind power density point of view), in some sites.
Wind atlas is in the developing process for Palestinian Territories. Further researches and more
field measurements for wind are required.

4. Bio energy
Biogas production is still under investigation and few demonstration projects are existing in Palestine.
Concerning the small-scale biogas generation using animal dung, the potential could not be identified so
clearly. According to the number of animals in the West Bank, the hypothetical potential is that we
could realize 172 installations of 50 kW each, which represents 8.6 MW of electrical generation. Due to
the high number of small cattle and the fact that the animals are spread all over the West Bank, we
consider that a reasonable potential could be one third of this total potential. Then around 3 MW of
generation could be possible with this technology. Landfill biogas has a potential of 18 MW of electricity
generation in the whole West Bank, distributed in three centre's, assuming that each one will generate
the same amount of electricity. This scenario is based on the case of the Jenin landfill, whose potential
is estimated to 6 MW.
IV. ACTION PLAN AND STRATEGY FOR RE IN PALESTINE
An Integrated and coherent energy policy is intended to be at the heart of the RES Development Action
Plan for Palestine, which provides a framework and 2020 targets to promote renewable energy and
energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a purpose to establish a sound RES policy
intervention which strengthen RES planning processes in Palestine so as to speed RES and Energy
Efficiency progress and incorporate sustainability constraints.

National Renewable Energy Strategy
The expected installed capacities for 2020 are listed below:
2020 (MW)Technology used
25On Ground PV
20Rooftops PV (Palestinian Solar Initiative)
20Concentrated solar power plants
18biogas from landfills
3biogas from animal waste
4Small-scale wind
40Wind Farms
130Total

Challenges and Obstacles
• There are some challenges to implement the national strategy for renewable energy which
we can summarize as follows: -
• Lack of legal frame work such as (Renewable Energy Law) .
• Hesitation of the PEA to force this plan.
• Financial issues since this plan will have some burden on the government.
• Lack of local experience such as experienced engineers, technicians, contractors,…etc.
• Lack of mega scale projects (No big multi mega projects are installed yet).
• Lack of public a awareness.
• Lack of industrial involvement.
• Educational centers such as universities, scientific centers participation is limited.
• Political issues such as classification of zones A,B,C.

Tubas Electricity ( Successful Story)

Tubas District Electricity Company
TDECO
TDECO was established in 2002 but it was officially registered on march 18,2006, the owners of
it are municipalities and village council in Tubas governorate and some parts of Jenin
governorate as well, the purposes of its establishment is to distribute electricity in these villages
and towns, since the people of these villages and towns were either deprived of electricity or
had some diesel generator run few hours a day!.
Since then TDECO increased its power capacity 400% and served more town and villages.
Its true that TDECO is the smallest and youngest company in Palestine but it is also true its
leading all mentioning some aspects,
TDECO owns and runs the only transformers maintenance center in the country, SCADA system,
GIS system, and last but not the least the Solar projects.
TDECO Renewable Energy Projects:
Why TDECO interested in renewable energy.
Since the energy security is one of the pillars of development of any nation so it should be viable
and economical (fair price), and as we live abnormal conditions and we import most of our needs
from neighboring countries (Israel, Jordan, and Egypt).

Hence the security of our energy is lost and also since we depend mostly on one source (Israel),
we don`t have any diversity of our energy, for all these reasons TDECO which it self had suffered
from the impacts of this situation such as lack of power supply , our company is connected with
Israel Electric Corporation IEC in one point, since 6 years TDECO demanded extra power supply
of 30MVA but IEC only approved 15 MVA as a result we paid all the fees and built the M.V
network but IEC didn’t increase anything till now, As a result lots of projects were canceled and
the development in our region slowed down, and our people suffered. These are few points why
TDECO strongly support the renewables and we can summarize the reasons as follows: -
1- Energy security.
2- Energy diversity.
3- Energy feasibility (economic).
4- Energy environmentally (health).
5- Energy Independence (polities).
Photovoltaic Station economy:
In addition to national goal and compliance with the national strategy of renewables, the PV
stations are very feasible and we show good results of 1 MWP compared to 1 MWP imported
from neighboring countries, we find out that (1 KWH produced by PV cost Nis 0.426, on the
other hand 1 KWH purchased from IEC NIS 0.453).

Tables 1 and 2 will illustrate the investment of 1MWP energy cost of 1MWP of PV station and energy
purchased from IEC.
Table 1, Tariff comparison of energy produced by PV and purchased from IEC.
Tariff
NIS US$
Net Annual revenue
NIS US$
Payment description
0.1230.4262890299718Owned by company
0.1380.477234378086030% cash installment 5 years
0.1310.452000Purchased from IEC

Table 2, cost of 1MWP in 20 years
Cost US$Description
2043000Capital Cost
289855Ground Cost
50,000Maintenance
175000Inverter replacement in (n=12)
5%Interest rate
12N (number of years)
1870500Annual production KWH
1%Annual degradation
2,857,855Total cost in year (n=0)

It is obvious that the energy produced by the PV station is cheaper than the energy purchased
from other countries, in addition to that by installing the PV station in Palestine the whole
economy will benefit from that such as employment of local engineers, technicians, …etc.
Renewable Energy in TDECO
TDECO in in the front line in the country of PV solar energy and has many programs which we
can summarize as follows: -
a- PV solar station owned by the companies.
b- PV solar station for the local farmers.
c- Roof top feed in tariff (Fit) stations (Palestine Solar Initiative PSI).
d- Net metering stations.
e- Power purchase agreements (private business).
f- Remote communities in zone C.
a- PV solar station owned by TDECO.
TDECO had received a grant from the Czech Development Agency (CZDA) in 2010 to install PV
stations in 2 phases, first phase for 120 KWP was handed over and in operation since June 2013
for a total cost of ($300,000) and this station produce (220,000 KWH) yearly of total revenue
25000$ and also this decrease about 205 tons of Co2.

Second phase was opened recently two weeks ago Feb15,2015 by prime minister Dr. Rami Al Hamdallah
and Dr. Omar kittaneh, head of PEA with all local media (TV, newspaper,…etc).
The second phase power is 350 KWP for total cost ($ 685,000), we can notice the sharp drop in the price
for second phase , this phase will produce about (641,000 KWP) for a total revenue
of ($ 80,000) per year and reduction of 1000 tons of Co2.
b- PV station for local farmers
TDECO managed to get a grant from CZDA for farmers and it also followed the same pattern as company
owned (two phases).
Phase one: three farmers benefited from this grant, each farmer got small station of 5 KWP, this phase
was handed over in December 2013.
Phase two: twenty farmers will benefit from this phase, 15farmers, each one will get 5 KWP station and
connected to the grid, 5 farmers, each will get 3 KWP with storage batteries, this phase was released for
tendering.
C- Roof top station, feed in Tariff (Fit)
PEA has launched Palestine Solar Initiative (PSI) early in 2013 in order to induce residents to install PV
stations on their roof tops at attractive prices for people in order to encourage them to install the PV
station, and it was in a sense public awareness .

The original plan of PSI was as follows: -
In Gaza, this plan wasn’t applied, but in the west bank only 150 stations are installed, most of
them were in the northern region , our company managed to install 120 houses, the other
companies installed 30 houses. more over we had sent many applications for PEA approval , but
we received no answer from PEA , as a matter of fact we could install all the 1000 stations.
As TDECO we find (PSI) is very practical and suit us for many reasons , the idea of PSI that the
residents can install up to 5KWP on their roof top with very attractive price, and can sell all the
production of the station to distribution company at high price and they purchase the energy at
normal price and the government will pay the difference.
We find that the residents can retain their investments in (3-5) years and that depends on PSI
price since it changes yearly, the resident sign a contract with the distribution company for 20
years , the (5 KWP) station cost is a about ($10,000).
GazaTotal housesWest Bank
400300North regionAvenue
400Central region
300South region
4001000Total

TDECO is successful in this field because the management a Vail this plan for every body poor or
rich. TDECO made arrangements with local bank so they guarantee to pay for the bank all the
installments of the loans by residents from the production of their stations, it takes
around (3.5- 5 years).
TDECO also signed agreements with local contractors the same way with banks , both way (bank
and contractors) are going well.
In addition to that TDECO producers are very simple, it usually takes few days to get the approval
for applicants.
To explain why PSI was very attractive for people the 1st 100 applicants will sell their energy in
very good price (NIS 1.07) ($ 0.31), the next people will sell at a price of (NIS 0.8) ($0.232)while
they can purchase their energy from their distribution company at price of (NIS 0.65).
To summarize some important points about PSI in TDECO
120 houses (600KWP) represent 3% of connected load , total revenue of $(140,000) and
reduction of 1000 tons of CO2.
d- Net metering station
Even through there are no regulation or laws which regulate the net metering, TDECO approved
4 small projects just to push the case and enforce regulation by PEA, and as a result PEA is
preparing a draft of renewables and hopefully it will be approved by the government in few
weeks.

These four projects were taken carefully and we try to spread them in different locations not in
one single town and also in different (sectors and professions) .
Lets take a look at these projects: -
Table (3) :
From the above table (3) we can see that total capacity installed – is111 KWP which represent
0.56% of total connected load and this capacity will yield total revenue $(23000) yearly and
reduce emission of CO2 (190 tons) , by the way we have received many applications of all sectors
and business and we are waiting for the new law by PEA.
InvestortypeCapacityLocationProject
Palestine telecommunication
company PALTEL
Private
business
5 KWPTubas, Tubas1-
Mr. JarbawiFarm of
cattle
30 KWPUmm Altout, Jenin2-
Agriculture Training CenterNGO6 KWPZababdeh, jenin3-
Private UniversityEducation70 KWP
1st phase
Arab American University4-

e- power purchase agreement (PPA)
TDECO had signed PPA with local company since two years ago to purchase the energy at very
competitive price less or equal to the IEC price and this agreement will be installed in two phases,
phase I of 3000KWP, and phase II of 2000 KWP, luckily PEA has approved first phase and gave the
local company the license , it is a great break through and this is the only license has been
approved so far we hope that the local company will start the work in few weeks.
The first phase 3MWP will represent 15% of connected load capacity and will yield total revenue
($700,000) yearly and will reduce omission 6000 tons of CO2.
f- Remote communities in zone C:
There are small villages and communities in what so called (Zone C) in the west bank , and the
people living there are deprived of electricity, due to political situation, we can`t connect them to
the grid, so with the help of Dr. Imad Brik, Head of Energy Research Center in Annajah national
University who managed to get a grant from Spanish Agency “SEBA” a stand alone PV station for
each, house in these villages (A’touf, Yerza, Ibzik) was installed three years ago . It is true the
capacity of power was small and minimal, but at least these people now have accesses to
electricity sources which is barely enough for their basic needs these people are more fortunate
than others who are still without any source of electricity.

Total capacity of these PVS 28KWP which may not represent any tangible value of the grid connection
load but it means every thing for these people.
1- WHY TDECO is Successful Story
a- Procedures in TDECO are very simple.
No complications for applicants.
b- Financial issue is no problem for every body since TDECO signed agreements with local banks
(Green Loans).
c- Public a awareness campaign, TDECO has issued massive public awareness campaign in all types of
media, such as TV, radio.
d- credibility of the company since TDECO has good credibility with the people and it always honor all
promises.
e- Human resources, TDECO is investing a lot in training employees , we continuously train our
engineers and technicians.
f- dedication, determination and vision by the management since 2008 the management is pushing this
issue.
g- TDECO has good contacts with all concerned parties such as, PEA, distribution companies,
contractors, Universities, and international donors as well.
h- TDECO participation in all related conferences and seminars such as (energy 5th international
conference in Palestine which was held 3 weeks ago.

Recommendations
1- Installation of mixture of renewable energy (PV, wind and bio mass) is possible and feasible
and it is a must in Palestine.
2- PSI must be extended since it is the core of the renewable and affect all people.
3- Regulations for renewables should be approved by PEA without any delay.
4- All roof tops of public buildings such as schools, ministries, mosques, churches, …etc shall have
been first application of PV.
5- Business men and women are very interested to engage in renewables and so they shall be
encouraged through PPA.
6- Incentives by the government and distribution companies for every resident who install PV in
roof top.
7- new buildings shall not be licensed unless parts of energy consumption is produced by
renewables.
8- extending the green loans by local banks.
9- Extensive public awareness campaign through all types of means media.
10- Annual national price by PEA for the best projects of the renewables.
11- Tax free for the equipments of renewables and the production of energy.
12- Training of technicians for multi mega projects.
13- Involvement of educational institutions such as research of renewable and bridge such results
with concerned parties.

References
1- Palestine Energy Authority and Natural Resources (PEANR).
2- Palestine Electricity Regulatory Council (PERC).
3- Palestine Statistics Beuro.
4- TDECO.
5- Energy Efficiency Directorate (EED).

Innovation week, Roadmap for renewables in palestine tubas as a model

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Mais procurados

Mais procurados (20)

Semelhante a Innovation week, Roadmap for renewables in palestine tubas as a model

Semelhante a Innovation week, Roadmap for renewables in palestine tubas as a model (20)

Mais de Maghrenov

Mais de Maghrenov (20)

Último

Último (20)

Innovation week, Roadmap for renewables in palestine tubas as a model