Tourism negotiated 6 hotels in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Aswan to use solar energy
The Ministry of Tourism is negotiating with six hotels in several different tourist destinations to switch to the use of solar energy and the launch of their own solar power plants. The six hotels are located in more than one tourist city located between Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Aswan.
This comes within the framework of encouraging the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism to use clean energy. Eng. Imad Hassan, Advisor to the Minister of Tourism for Energy and Sustainable Development, said that the ministry is exerting its utmost efforts to promote the spread of solar energy use in the sector. Operate hotels, achieve sustainable development in tourist areas, and marketing to Egypt as a tourist destination that protects the environment.
He pointed out to the seventh day that there is a hotel in Cairo has already completed the launch of its solar station and began work phase, and another hotel in Hurghada has completed its contracts and in the implementation stages, where we aim at this phase 8 hotels to switch to solar energy.
The ministry provides a grant to the hotels to contribute to the cost of solar plants and to encourage hotels to take that step. Hassan pointed out that the ministry worked in partnership with the project of photovoltaic systems connected to the network Egypt PV Of the Industrial Modernization Center and the United Nations Development Program [UNDP], to provide technical support to hotels wishing to convert to solar energy.
The program also contributes to the cost of the project and the implementation of solar power plants. The contribution is 25 to 30% on the first 150 kW funded by the GEF, where the Ministry works to match hotel needs with this grant.
Hassan pointed out that this project is one of the models that is implemented in order to encourage hotels to use photovoltaic cells to generate electricity, in order to reduce operating expenses and application of the concepts of sustainable tourism and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing the phenomenon of climate change, noting that hotels have a desire to The use of clean energy, especially in light of the increase in the prices of conventional energy in recent years, which prompted the hotel sector to search for other sources of energy at a fixed cost.
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