“…The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year. A similar potential exists for wind power in many parts of North Africa (Al‐Soud and Hrayshat, ; Benkhadra, ). A French development report summarises the advantages of local solutions to electricity access, pointing to the many local benefits of renewables‐based project in addition to their advantages from a climatic point of view:The use of renewable energy sources therefore addresses less the issue of climate constraints than financial considerations: rural electrification based on renewable energy enables local resources to be used to best advantage while remaining free from the price volatility of fossil energy and the extra costs associated with its transport to isolated areas.…”
Section: Approaches To Tackling Energy Poverty In the Menamentioning
confidence: 76%
“…The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year. A similar potential exists for wind power in many parts of North Africa (Al-Soud and Hrayshat, 2004;Benkhadra, 2009). A French development report summarises the advantages of local solutions to electricity access, pointing to the many local benefits of renewables-based project in addition to their advantages from a climatic point of view:…”
Section: The Importance Of Local Solutionsmentioning
confidence: 87%
“…Diesel generators had been found highly polluting and required frequent repair and maintenance, often in geographically remote areas where technical defaults led to frequent interruptions for long periods, resulting in high costs. Many rural communities welcomed the introduction of cleaner and supposedly low‐maintenance PV generators that avoided the running costs associated with diesel fuel (Al‐Soud and Hrayshat, , p. 593). The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year.…”
Section: Approaches To Tackling Energy Poverty In the Menamentioning
Energy access remains one of the forgotten millennium development goals, despite being a key ingredient to sustained and equitable socio‐economic growth and development. This article looks at the energy poverty nexus in the Middle East and North Africa, a region frequently overlooked in the study of energy access owing to its significant hydrocarbon wealth, and the impact energy poverty has made on parts of the region. A closer look reveals the puzzling picture of a region divided between energy abundant states and states with continuingly high rates of lacking access to electricity and secure supply of modern fuels. The existence of some of the worst cases of energy poverty in the MENA in net exporters of oil and gas such as Yemen and Egypt further demonstrates that energy poverty is effectively a domestic distributive problem, rather than one caused by a country's lacking natural resources. The article explores the main causal factors and suggests short‐ and long‐term policy remedies.
“…The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year. A similar potential exists for wind power in many parts of North Africa (Al‐Soud and Hrayshat, ; Benkhadra, ). A French development report summarises the advantages of local solutions to electricity access, pointing to the many local benefits of renewables‐based project in addition to their advantages from a climatic point of view:The use of renewable energy sources therefore addresses less the issue of climate constraints than financial considerations: rural electrification based on renewable energy enables local resources to be used to best advantage while remaining free from the price volatility of fossil energy and the extra costs associated with its transport to isolated areas.…”
Section: Approaches To Tackling Energy Poverty In the Menamentioning
confidence: 76%
“…The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year. A similar potential exists for wind power in many parts of North Africa (Al-Soud and Hrayshat, 2004;Benkhadra, 2009). A French development report summarises the advantages of local solutions to electricity access, pointing to the many local benefits of renewables-based project in addition to their advantages from a climatic point of view:…”
Section: The Importance Of Local Solutionsmentioning
confidence: 87%
“…Diesel generators had been found highly polluting and required frequent repair and maintenance, often in geographically remote areas where technical defaults led to frequent interruptions for long periods, resulting in high costs. Many rural communities welcomed the introduction of cleaner and supposedly low‐maintenance PV generators that avoided the running costs associated with diesel fuel (Al‐Soud and Hrayshat, , p. 593). The PV potential of both Morocco and Jordan, as well as other parts of the MENA region, is high, owing to high sunshine rates through most of the year.…”
Section: Approaches To Tackling Energy Poverty In the Menamentioning
Energy access remains one of the forgotten millennium development goals, despite being a key ingredient to sustained and equitable socio‐economic growth and development. This article looks at the energy poverty nexus in the Middle East and North Africa, a region frequently overlooked in the study of energy access owing to its significant hydrocarbon wealth, and the impact energy poverty has made on parts of the region. A closer look reveals the puzzling picture of a region divided between energy abundant states and states with continuingly high rates of lacking access to electricity and secure supply of modern fuels. The existence of some of the worst cases of energy poverty in the MENA in net exporters of oil and gas such as Yemen and Egypt further demonstrates that energy poverty is effectively a domestic distributive problem, rather than one caused by a country's lacking natural resources. The article explores the main causal factors and suggests short‐ and long‐term policy remedies.
“…The so-called Solar Home System (SHS) represents a wellproven alternative for decentralised rural electrification, and corresponding programmes have been promoted for many years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] so that there is an estimated number of more than 4 million SHS currently in operation worldwide [10]. Obviously, the reliability of the SHS components is a key factor in the design of sustainable maintenance structures.…”
In this paper, a reliability analysis of a photovoltaic rural electrification (PVRE) programme is proposed considering the failures in the 13 000 installed Solar Home System (SHS) devices occurring over a long operating period of 5 years. A previous arrangement of the database and a brief explanation of the reliability concepts will serve to introduce the failure distribution of every component, from which the SHS lifetime operating features will be described. An application example will show the usefulness of the obtained results in the forecasting of spare parts during the maintenance period. The conclusions of this study may be useful in the scientific design of PVRE programme maintenance structures, with the goal of shedding some light on the technical management mechanisms in decentralised rural electrification.
“…Energy cost forms a financial burden on the national economy, in the sense that Jordan spends more than 12% of its gross domestic product on the purchase of energy [1]. But at the same time, Jordan possesses good renewable resources such as wind, solar energy [2,3], good oil shale and small hydropower resources. Therefore, it is important that the research and development activities should be concentrate on these resources.…”
This study presents investigation and assessment of wind characteristics and wind energy potential for four sites at the Jordanian southern region (Hareer, Ma'an, Aqaba and Fujaij). Based on the available measured data sources, the data were analyzed using hourly and mean monthly WS (wind speed) data at different heights, using a two-parameter probability distribution of Weibull function. The recognized monthly and yearly Weibull functions were considered for the second analysis step. The wind potential energy yields assessment for an ideal capable wind turbine was implemented. Finally, for energy yield estimation, a wind turbine from Vestas with a 660 kW rated power was chosen. The wind turbine characteristics: AF (availability factor), CF (capacity factor) and wind turbine efficiency (η), were defined and calculated for each site. The result of the analysis showed that, all sites have good wind energy potential, the Hareer site at Tafila has the best wind resources.
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