Solar energy in South Sinai
Originally posted on October 18, 2014 According to an article in Clean Technica , Egypt plans to achieve the target of getting 20% of its energy from renewable energy sources by the year 2020. Most of it will be wind power, but the solar energy program is also expanding. A country with so much sun, especially when energy prices are rising, definitely has to develop its potentials. The main problem with solar energy is that it is still quite expensive to produce electricity on a massive scale. However, on a small scale, it can be easier to implement and is quite practical. Around 2009-2010, photo voltaic (PV) panels were distributed by various development projects to Bedouin in South Sinai, but there were people who started experimenting with it from own resources even before that. Dr. Ahmed and Farhan Mohamed, pictured, were some of the first to use solar energy in their remote mountain gardens. Hmeid Abu Ghalaba was probably the first in St Katherine who made tea and cooked rice ...