Our partner institution the Arab Academy (AASTMT) is organising a final workshop on 13 and 14 October aimed at students and staff.

The objectives of this event will be:

• Disseminate the outcomes of the WESET Project
• Enhance the stakeholders’ knowledge about Wind Energy and its trend in Egypt
• Know the theoretical and practical aspects of wind turbine components, operation and control

The workshop may be followed by ZOOM. Please check the poster to find out more information:

On 08/09/2021, WESET partners in Egypt held a successfully conference in Cairo.

Discussions about the main outcomes of this 4 years of WESET were shared with the Wind Energy sector in the country as well as there was time to identify possibilities of further cooperation and establish new connections beyond WESET timeline.

As conclusion, the bullet points identified during the workshop were:

• Future of Egypt’s energy strategy and energy market structure: clarity of the pipeline/plans of new projects, and of the electricity market structure (auctioning, FIT, storage models, etc) are key to maintain and attract investments in this sector. Clarity would also attract competitiveness and transparency and would ensure the best value for the national utility.
• Legislation I: processes involved in land use, licencing and wheeling need to be improved and made more straightforward so that more local and FD investments thrive. A clear structure of BOO schemes for the private-to-private setup would help boost renewable energy projects, and lower carbon emissions of key target sectors.
• Legislation II: small scale wind opens great possibilities for local value chain development (design, manufacturing, jobs, etc); and for increased uptake of wind power. However, their use needs to be supported by a grid-code and legislations governing their licencing, and grid tie-in. Issues of certification and reliability of small-scale wind need to be addressed and sponsored by Egypt’s Electricity Regulatory Authority.
• Wind and the utility grid: while wind potential is promising is Egypt, attractive wind power development sites are currently known to be concentrated in particular areas. An increased on-grid generation of wind (inherently intermittent resource) at concentrated areas will lead to a costlier transmission facilities, and add a technical burden on the grid operator. A near-by storage facility, or off-grid applications, will indeed help expand far more investments in Egypt’s onshore wind power.
• A more industry-relevant education will increase confidence in renewables, and will help create high value jobs for Egypt’s wind power sector.

Our final conference in Egypt will take place on September 8th, 2021, starting from 10:30.

This event will be focused on the outcomes of the WESET Project and on the further possibilities of Wind Energy in Egypt

Please find out more information here:

The National Engineering School of Carthage, ENICarthage, and the Smart Electricity and ICT Research Laboratory, SI&ICT Lab. organized in collaboration with the National Agency for Energy Management, ANME, the Tunisian Society of Electricity and Gas, STEG and the Association of Electrical Sciences and Technologies, ASTE, as part of the ERASMUS + KA2 Project “Wind Engineering Skills in Egypt and Tunisia, WESET” the second day on Wind energy in Tunisia as the Final conference of this project on Monday July 05, 2021. This day was organized in webinar format with the main session ” Inventory of Wind Energy in Tunisia”, followed by a Round Table on “Strategic issues of Wind Energy in Tunisia, challenges and opportunities ” with a focus on the sustainability of the results of the WESET project and a special session on” Research activities of the Smart Electricity & ICT Laboratory on Wind Energy” where PhD and Master students presented their research work about this topic.

The following guests and speakers participated:

Ms. Nadia MZOUGHI, President of the University of Carthage
Mr. Hassen ZAIRI, Director of ENICarthage
Ms Nesrine BAKLOUTI, Coordinator of the ERASMUS + Tunisia Office
Mr. Abbès MILADI, Director and Project Manager of the Tozeur 1 & 2 PV Plant, Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company, STEG
Mr. Nafaa BACCARI, Director of Renewable Energies, National Agency for Energy Management, ANME
Ms. Lilia EL AMRAOUI, Local Coordinator of the WESET project
Ms Salwa ELLOUMI, Coordinator of the WESET Research Master, ENICarthage
Mr. Kaïs OUNI, Director of the Samrt Electricity and ICT Research Laboratory, and local co-coordinator of the WESET project.

Final Conference – Agenda

As part of the WESET Final Conferences a meeting is organized at the University of Sfax on Saturday 3rd July.

The new master modules in wind energy engineering at ENI-Sfax Tunisia will be discussed, and the new Wind Energy Center, with the equipment’s acquired within the framework of the WESET project, will be presented.

Find out more information here: Brochure

To express interest in attending this WESET Final Conference, please contact:
Prof. Mohamed CHAABANE: mohamed.chaabane@enis.tn
Dr. Mariem GHAMGUI: mariem.ghamgui@enis.tn

On Thursday 15 April between 12:30h and 14h Madrid Time, WESET students will make a virtual visit to the Control Centre of the Spanish National Power Grid (Red Eléctrica Española).

During this visit they will learn how the variability of renewable energies (wind in particular) is handled.

For further details contact us: CONTACT

Our partner institution RCREEE, together with MEDENER, are launching a virtual meeting for their MeetMEDII project, focused on Regional Cooperation for an Energy Efficient Future.

They are pleased to invite you to join the online kick off meeting of Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Meditation Region (meetMED)- Phase II. The event is scheduled to take place on April 7, 2021 at 09:30 -12:15 CET.

Register here for the Online Meeting: https://meetmed.org/launching-meetmed-ii/

The EU-GCC Clean Energy Technology Network and the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) are organising two virtual workshops on the integration of renewable energy in the industry and buildings sectors. The aim of the webinars is to exchange relevant best practices, information and lessons learned and advance regional initiatives on the integration of renewables energies in the main sectors of the region’s economies in the context of an inclusive and sustainable energy transitions. In addition, it will discuss the challenges facing the region and what can be done to transform these challenges into different business and economic opportunities including the creation of SMEs.

The second webinar dedicated to the industry sector, is supported by MESIA, and will be held virtually on Wednesday 3 March 2021 at 11.00 CET / 12.00 Cairo Time // 14.00 GST.

Find out more information on the event website

The Project Geothermal Energy Capacity Building in Egypt / GEB, selected in the Erasmus+ 2020 Call, has been launched. It is coordinated by Cairo University and has partners from several universities and organisms from Egypt and Europe, such as the WESET partners: University of Valladolid, University of Bologna, Aim Shams University and NREA. More information about the project in  (Project Card).

The WESET partner RCREEE co-organizes Climate Finance “Train the Trainers” course in Tunisia.

Find out more information here: https://www.rcreee.org/node/5799/