MENA Captive Renewable Energy Project

completed

The project aims to accelerate private sector deployment of renewable energy technologies for captive power generation. The project will primarily focus on Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan (tier 1), and Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia (tier 2). The project will explore relevant opportunities in other countries in the region based on demand. The project includes activities at both the firm and market levels. The activities at firm-level include: 1. Identifying local companies active in providing clean energy services or technologies and supporting them, through advisory services, to scale up their activities. 2. Supporting companies to assess the feasibility of using renewable energy-based captive generation to meet all or part of their energy needs. 3. Providing implementation support for projects that are assessed to be feasible. Activities at market-level include: strengthening local renewable energy supply chains by increasing awareness of relevant players, building linkages between market actors, and providing targeted training to address capacity gaps. The first co-operation agreement under this project has been signed with Karachi Organic Energy Ltd in relation to supporting the development of a 22MW biogas project.