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Proceedings of BSO Conference 2014: 2nd Conference of IBPSA-England

     

SOLAR WATER HEATING SYSTEMS DIFFUSION OPTIMIZATION ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF EGYPT

Ghada Azim, Salah El Haggar, Khaled Nassar

Abstract: To meet its Electricity demand in 2030 Egypt has to introduce new renewable energy sources. Unfortunately, solar technologies' high initial cost is a barrier to its diffusion. The aim of this paper is to develop a model that studies the optimum use of funds to encourage the deployment of solar water heaters. Since Egypt has a high solar potential, the model is accustomed to the urban Residential sector in Cairo. The model uses optimization and the RETScreen Software. The model inputs include the percentage of subsidy, system's costs and electricity savings while the output is the minimum possible payback period.
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