EGYPT / SOLAR ENERGY

Egypt's green house gas emissions are among the fastest growing the world. The country is now tapping international funds to reverse that trend.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:57
• Production Date: 22 September 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD BANK
• Subject Topical: NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION
• MAMS Id: U090922d

Description

STORY: EGYPT / SOLAR ENERGY
TRT: 1.57
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

SHOTLIST: KUREIMAT AND CAIRO, EGYPT IN JULY 2009
JULY 2009 - KUREIMAT, EGYPT

1. Wide shot, tractor hauling solar panel, Kureimat, Egypt
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abd El Rahman Salah El Din, Chairman of Egypt’s National Renewable Energy Authority, Kureimat:
“We have many capabilities: we have a huge desert, we have human resources, we have clouds only about nine or ten days a year, and our sun projection is very high because we are in the sun belt.”

JULY 2009 – CAIRO, EGYPT

3. Various shots, busy streets

KUREIMAT, EGYPT

4. Wide shot, truck passing solar panel Kureimat
5. Zoom out, Mohamed al-Desouqi and team walking
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed al-Desouqi, Kureimat:
“It’s ready to collect sun and to concentrate sun to heat a fluid and from this heat you use some heat exchanger and from this heat exchanger you take the heat and start boiling the water to produce power.”
7. Close up, men carrying solar panels and framing them

JULY 2009 - KUREIMAT

8. Wide shot, lifting of balancing machine
9. Close up, men in protective hats
10. Wide shot, long lines of panels
11. Close up, tractor
12. Wide shot, people walking close to panels
13. Wide shot, tractor bringing in panel
14. Wide shot, top shot of installation site

Storyline

In the Egyptian desert in a place called Kureimat, men are busy at work preparing to capture sun rays and turn them into energy. The solar project is clean and carbon-free. And Egypt has the resources needed to produce lots of it.

SOUNDBITE (English) Abd El Rahman Salah El Din, Chairman of Egypt’s National Renewable Energy Authority, Kureimat:
“We have many capabilities: we have a huge desert, we have human resources, we have clouds only about nine or ten days a year, and our sun projection is very high because we are in the sun belt.”

Egypt, the Arab World’s most populated country, has some of the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world. The country is now trying to reverse that by diversifying –and cleaning- its electric power production.

The Solar project at Kureimat is one of several renewable energy projects now underway in the country. Egypt tapped World Bank funds to finance Kureimat which is set to begin operation in 2010.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed al-Desouqi, Kureimat:
“It’s ready to collect sun and to concentrate sun to heat a fluid and from this heat you use some heat exchanger and from this heat exchanger you take the heat and start boiling the water to produce power.”
Workers at are busy assembling the solar panel structures, made from imported, highly-resistant, thick glass panes and bases and frames made of steel.

The solar panel structures are set in rows that will soon take up 65 thousand square meters of desert space-only a beginning. Egypt’s top energy officials say the country is already planning a solar energy scale-up, as part of a regional plan extending across North Africa.