1. Giovanna Ceglie
UNIDO Representative and Director Regional Office
Solar Thermal Energy in Egypt
Conference
11 June 2013, Cairo

2. Table of contents
 GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
 UNIDO’S WORK IN THE FIELD OF ENERGY
 SOLAR PROJECTS IN INDIA AND EGYPT
 BRIEF CONCLUSIONS
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3. UNIDO AT A GLANCE
06/06/11
 United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
= Specialized Agency of the United Nations
 UNIDO has HQ in Vienna, Austria, a network of 45 field
offices, 41 National Cleaner Production Centres and 11
Investment and Technology Promotion Offices
 MANDATE = promote and accelerate sustainable industrial
development, focusing on 3 thematic priorities:
• POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES
• TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING
• ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

4. Global Energy Challenges
• 1.5 billion still lack access to electricity
• 2.7 billion rely on traditional biomass
• Energy Access: a pre-requisite for Poverty
Reduction and achievement of MDGs
Health problems and premature deaths
Climate change, and
Hampers socio-economic advancement
Energy Poverty, Energy Security & Climate Change

5. Zambia
Ukraine
Chad
Thailand
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Liberia
Cambodia
India
Guinea
EgyptCuba
Cote d‘Ivoire
Sri Lanka
Albania
UNIDO energy projects
Cape Verde
Gambia
Cameroon
Comoros
Kenya
Lesotho
Madagascar
Mozambique
South Africa
Sudan
Laos
Colombia
Chile
Dominican Republic
Uruguay
Tanzania
Ecuador
Burkina Faso
Macedonia ( FRY)
Turkey
Moldova
Russia
Iran
Pakistan
China
Malaysia
Indonesia
Philippines
VietnamMexico
Peru
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Brazil
Paraguay
Uganda
Bangladesh

6.  INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES
 INNOVATIVE LOW CARBON TECHNOLOGIES
 RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRODUCTIVE USES
 Off-grid: stand-alone systems and mini-grids
 Industrial applications, i.e. solar thermal, biomass
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Key Technology Focus

7. Technology
Demonstration
Capacity
Building
Awareness
Raising
Replication
strategy
Financing
instruments
Policy &
Regulation &
Standards
UNIDO Energy Strategy: Building Blocks

8. RE in Industrial Applications
Potential towards 2050 – UNIDO analysis
 Manufacturing industry 1/3 of global E use
 60% of industry’s total final E use in non-OECD
 Global industrial production x4 by 2050
 Up to 21% of final E-use
possible from RE
 Bio energy by far largest
potential
 Also solar thermal and heat
pumps
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9. SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING FOR INDUSTRY
GROWING SOLAR MARKET (IEA)
 Solar heating market as a whole is growing at 11%, faster than
PV and CSP
 Solar thermal collector capacity worldwide was 195 GWth at
end of 2010
 At this rate market will double to 500 GWth by 2017 (IEA, 2011
data)
VARIOUS PRODUCTS AND TEMPERATURE RANGES
 Flat plate: up to 150°C
 Advanced flat plate / Evacuated tube: 80 to 150°C
 Concentrating solar technologies: 60 to 400°C
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10. Case1: Promoting industrial applications of solar energy in
selected industrial sectors in India - UNIDO-GEF5
 Project Objective
 Promote solar energy in selected industrial sectors
 Improve competitiveness of industrial sectors while reducing carbon
emissions through technological innovation
 Technology: CSTs, heat pipes, non-imaging concentrators
 Temperature range: between 150 and 400°C (for CSTs)
 Target sectors: Food Processing, Paper and Pulp, Fertilizer, Breweries,
Pharmaceutical, Textile (Finishing), Refineries, Rubber, Desalination
! Pharmaceutical/food processing/dairy & breweries = largest users of process
cooling
 Project will cover both solar heating and cooling applications
 Status: detailed design phase ongoing; Expected to start Q3-Q4 2013
 Similar projects being developed for Malaysia and Egypt
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11. Case2: Egypt
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 Developing the policy framework to support the use of renewable energy in
industrial and commercial applications
 Supporting the deployment of solar thermal technologies for multipurpose
applications in industrial and commercial applications (implementing
projects installing solar thermal technologies and disseminating/upscaling
good practice)
 Setting up a financial platform to facilitate access to capital
 Enhancing the local manufacture, supply and distribution of solar
technologies for cooling and heating (securing quality supply through
developing standards, quality control and improving technical skills)
 Creating a platform to promote partnerships between local industries,
international centers of excellence and technology suppliers

12. Hopeful signs and trends
 Finance and Investment in RE in 2010 amounted to a record USD 211
billion
 More RE investment in developing countries than in developed
economies
 About half of new electricity generation capacity worldwide is based
on RE; large share in China, also in Latin America and Africa
 The biggest markets for RE investment were emerging economies,
and with a focus on small scale projects.
Source: UNEP / Bloomberg NEF / Frankfurt Business School
 Plenty of experience on policy instruments for electricity production;
much less so for heat from RE sources, and for industrial applications,
despite the potential => role for UNIDO
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13. Two final words
 Economic viability
…. but what are we comparing?
 1.9 trillion US$ global subsidies for fossil fuels ; 0.5 billion for RE (VEF
2013)
 India: cost of coal power generation equal to PV power generation (VEF
2013)
 The importance of national policy as a catalyst for investment in
renewable energy by giving orientations and (dis)incentives
 A few ‘side’ effects
 Job and skills generation
 Decentralized, small scale solutions fitting community
endowments and needs transparency and accountability of
decision making process
 Environmental and health effect
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14. THANK YOU!