1. Prospects of Renewable Energy in Jordan
Eilat-Eilot International
Renewable Energy Conference
2011
22-24 February 2001
Dr. Aiman Alshare German Jordanian University

2. Renewable Energy Drivers
Economical Aspects
Science and Technology
Clean environment

3. Current Energy Consumption Snapshot

4. Renewable Energy Resources

5. Energy Mix Domestic resources 3-4% 15 % of GNB (8 Mtoe)
Renewable Energy is 5%
CO2 emission is 3.2 ton/capita
Energy consumption 1.6 toe/capita

6. RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS
Utility Scale
Concentrating solar thermal power
Solar fuels
Photovoltaics
Wind
Biomass
Distributed
Heating/cooling
Hot water

7. RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS
WIND ENERGY
Wind Atlas by Danish RISO institute & JMD, MEMR, NERC
Danish Tellus, German Co.
20 ktoe
Opportunities
Partnership Wind Turbines industry
Completion of Wind Data

8. RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS
PHOTOVOLOTICS
5-7 kW h/m2/day
PV in remote area small scale 400 MW h/year (32 ktoe)
Opportunities
Partnership to upscale usage
RTI PV
SOLAR THERMAL

9. RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS
BIOMASS
Constrained vegetation
Biogas
Opportunities
Family fermentation units
100 ktoe

10. Over 100 million m2 collectors worldwide
World-wide Deployment
China
65 %
Europe
17 %
Japan
3 %
ROW
7 %
Israel
8 %
Germany, Greece and Austria are the three largest markets in Europe, with a combined installed solar thermal area of 9.6 million m2.
Austria (8 million people) has an installed solar thermal capacity of 1.5 GWth, equal to that of the installed solar thermal capacity in the US ( nearly 300 million).
Over 100 million m2 collectors worldwide

11. State of the Art: Solar Thermal Electricity (Concentrating Solar Power)
624 heliostats; each 120 m2
Tower height: 100 m
Rankine-cycle
Converstion = 21% peak and 16% avg.
Cost (incl. power block): 35 M€
11 MW-e/ 55 MW-th (Sevilla, Spain)

12. Cooling of Photovoltaic Panels to Improve Efficiency- Model and Experimental Study
Tareq Abu Hamed
The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center
Aiman Alshare
German Jordanian University

13. May 1889
It worries me a lot when I think that I have done so many pictures and drawings without ever selling one.
Vincent van Gogh
15 Sunflowers
$40 M

14. THANK YOU EUROPEAN UNION
Dr. Kurt Wiesegart – EU- Team leader of MED-ENEC Project (Energy Efficiency in the Construction Sector in the Mediterranean
Ms. Alexandra Meir – EU policy officer – Delegation of European Commission to the the state of Israel
EILAT-EILOT organizational committee