Sana'a - Saba:
Today, Sana'a started a workshop on mini-electrical networks using solar energy in Yemen, organized by the United Nations Office for Project Services "Leones" in cooperation with the Ministry of Electricity, Energy and Water.
The two-day workshop aims to introduce 25 people from the Ministry of Electricity, institutions and its affiliated bodies, relevant government agencies, local communities, the private sector, development partners, experts and technicians, in the concept of mini-solar networks and their role in enhancing access to clean energy sources.
Participants receive acquaintances about the experiences of a number of countries and to know the gaps and the reasons behind the failure or success of these experiences to benefit from them in developing a suitable model for the Yemeni environment, especially with regard to the role of sungrafa networks to ensure electricity reaching rural areas, evaluating international best practices, reviewing organizational frameworks and strategies to involve society, enhancing financial sustainability and technical capabilities to design and operate systems efficiently.
At the opening of the workshop, the First Deputy Prime Minister, the scholar Muhammad Moftah, confirmed that Yemen is in a stage of recovery during the current stage, despite the aggression and the siege over the past ten years, as well as the American aggression currently.
It is signed that Yemen is satisfied with energy during the next ten years, he said, "with government efforts and support for donor partners, I believe that during the ten years we will reach a stage of sufficiency, because Yemeni society is alive and rooted and is not subject to harsh conditions."
"We remember in 2015, when the American and Emirati -Emirati aggression began and targeted the simple structure of electricity, and the people felt at the time that they would drown in the dark, and what happened was the opposite that people went to cover their energy needs for homes and shops," he added.
The scholar indicated that Yemen has become a need, not by planning, nor organizing from the first countries in the Middle East, who has a community coverage of simple alternative energy to facilitate their lives affairs in homes and commercial stores and operate well water, praising the role of the Yemeni society in managing the problem of electricity and treating it to cover the actual need of energy.
He expressed his happiness by opening the workshop designated to study the current situation in the field of renewable energy in the country, and how to cover remote areas with small networks to transfer those areas from the level of destitution in energy to the lowest level of electricity.
He explained that the next century is the energy century, because humanity is directed towards energy to provide small, controlled and high -quality storage means, and how energy generation from more than one source, whether known or that is still searching and discovery is underway, noting that humanity has reached in the telecommunications sector to an advanced level and there is no longer the technology and information it provides in this sector, despite the continuous discoveries.
He said, "Many had no imagination decades ago that the sun turned into very enormous energy and that water, wind and organic waste all become energy sources, along with many means, and what is happening in developed countries from Japan and others generating energy in many ways and means even at the level of traffic, football and exercise."
The First Deputy Prime Minister expressed the hope that the workshop will come out with positive and fruitful results and that the role of the private sector be active as the future beneficiary in investing in the field of electric energy, stressing that the country is still a virgin and crude country and investing in this sector is good.
He condemned the targeting of the American aggression, for civilians and civil establishments, including the bombing of private sector factories, considering this a blatant violation of the laws, norms, covenants, and international and humanitarian laws that violate the attack on civilian notables.
In turn, the Minister of Electricity, Energy and Water Dr. Ali Saif explained that the scientific progress in renewable energy made the separations that were present between the transport, distribution and obstetrics sectors, fading, and the obstetrics today are closer to distribution.
He pointed out that the transportation sector in most countries has become greatly faded, and it is used only for the surplus of energy to transfer it from excessive places to places with demand, especially in light of the presence of new and renewable energy sources of solar energy, wind, water, thermal, and others.
Minister Saif stated that during the current period the world focuses on two strategic projects, the first is the quantitative computer, and the second is the renewable energy project, and they are two projects in which the world is concerned with reaching high technology and technologies.
He pointed out that the workshop will focus mainly on small and smart networks, and said, "Instead of the energy to be transferred from a continuous current and convert it into a hesitant current and return to a continuous current, searching for how to find a source of current from continuous to continuously is directly, so that small networks work to find an energy source and a continuous current without media."
The Minister of Electricity and Energy stressed the keenness to find a central energy in a central manner, adding, "We seek to find renewed energy in a central manner, in the areas where the wind trap is located, as well as the water energy with the presence of waterfalls in any region, through which energy is produced for the people of the region, which is the local decentralization energy that contributes to alleviating the suffering of the citizen in it."
The workshop will focus on the priorities of small networks according to conditions and criteria, manage and operate them in the cooperation of the community, and its sustainability, he said, noting that the Ministry of Electricity has a model prepared by Eng. Muhammad Al-Beheiri in Muqbana in Taiz Governorate for 120 subscribers with a specific capacity.
The Ministry of Electricity and Water will work to generalize the model, and to measure the extent of its success in addition to the private sector as well, Minister Saif said, expressing the hope that the outputs of the workshop will be fruitful, helping to choose two models in two sites, so that the full conditions are studied for them, to give a successful index to implement them after marketing to partners and donors to provide the necessary funds for them.
At the opening of the workshop, which was attended by the Deputy Minister of Electricity and Water, Adel Bader, and the Program Advisor at the United Nations Office for Projects Services, Khaldoun Salem, the director of the emergency project to provide electricity in Yemen, Ziad Jaber, confirmed that the country's requirements in various sectors, including the electricity, water, road sectors, and others.
He touched on the UNBS interventions to cover a small part of the needs of various sectors, including harnessing financing from donors to work to bridge the gap that takes place for each sector, noting the support of the World Bank in covering UNISPs significantly in several sectors.
He said, "The World Bank contributed to providing a financial grant to support the electricity sector in Yemen, including the emergency project to provide electricity" the second stage "in rural and semi -urban areas," noting that the workshop is participating in the stakeholders with regard to studies that specialize in creating small solar energy networks, as part of humanitarian solutions to reach the coverage of the need for energy for Yemeni society in rural areas.
Jaber stressed the need to benefit from international studies and expertise, including the experiences of UEPS in several countries, take successful matters and transfer them to Yemen, taking into account the conditions taking place in the country in terms of technology and administrative, and the privacy of geography, climate and others.
He considered the presence of all stakeholders and work with the Younes, very important to the sustainability of these projects and to ensure the provision of human resources, experiences and information and find solutions that take into account conditions in rural areas and define priorities in them, by taking advantage of international experiences.
The director of the emergency project to provide electricity pointed out that the workshop is the first starting point for this vital project and its outputs are built in the future in its development .. expressing his aspiration that everyone's participation is active in the workshop to come up with proposals that help to proceed with the implementation of the project on the reality, in the service of the Yemeni citizen in rural areas.
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