Category: Event

In the context of meetMED II activities, RCREEE and MEDENER in cooperation with Administrative Capital Urban Development (ACUD) are organizing a training course and study tour about “District Cooling in the South Mediterranean Countries” on March 26^th – 27^th , 2022 at Cairo, Egypt.

The two-day training and study tour event will promote knowledge and experiences exchange in the district cooling field. The first day of the event includes a training course that will introduce the existing technologies and experiences in north and south Mediterranean countries and propose optimal technologies, performances, and implementation mechanisms.

A study tour for District Cooling Power Stations in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt will also be organized on the second day of the event, which will be an excellent opportunity to exchange good practices and discuss innovative approaches and possible ways forward for promoting District Cooling activities.

 About Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Mediterranean region (meetMED) II

The Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Mediterranean region (meetMED) project is an EU-funded project, developed by the Mediterranean Association of the National Agencies for Energy Management (MEDENER) and the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE).

Following the success of its first phase (MEETMED I, from 2018-2020), meetMED project commences its second phase aiming to enhance the energy security of beneficiary countries (namely Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia) while fostering their transition to low carbon economy. Accordingly, meetMED II will be contributing to the creation of more stable, efficient, competitive and climate-resilient socioeconomic contexts in the targeted countries.

In the framework of the meetMED II “Mitigation Enabling Energy Transition in the Mediterranean region” project, MEDENER/ADEME, in cooperation with RCREEE and Global ABC are organizing a roundtable entitled “Towards Adaptation of the Building Sector in the Mediterranean Region” on March 7^th, 2022 at Nice, France.

 

The roundtable, held on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the Global ABC, focuses on resilient building construction in the Mediterranean context from the perspective of COP 27 that will be hosted in Egypt from 7th to 18th of November 2022.

 

Moreover, this roundtable is built on a dialogue between Mediterranean GlobalABC members and a strong euro Mediterranean collaboration within the meetMED project implemented by MEDENER and RCREEE and financed by European Commission joining their forces for massifying energy efficiency measures in the building and appliances sector targeting eight countries on the South and East Mediterranean Countries.

 

Bringing together stakeholders to share pilot projects and challenges met in the region on how to adapt construction and buildings to climate change and highlight remaining gaps to align Mediterranean building and construction sector with Paris Agreement requirements.

Within the Africa Forum of Pollutec, meetMED II is organizing “Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Electrical Equipment – Cross View of the Mediterranean” conference. The conference will take place on October 14, 2021 starting at 4:50 pm to 5:35 pm.

You can join us remotely by connecting to the zoom link which will be updated later on the Pollutec web page of the conference: Round table “Promoting energy efficiency in buildings and household appliances – crossed views in the Mediterranean“.

During our conference, the National Agency for Energy Conservation of Tunisia (ANME), the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME), the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE),  the Tunisian Cluster for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (TUNICREEE), Medener and MeetMED will discuss the opportunities, levers and constraints to promote these Energy Efficiency markets around a panel of institutions and industries by crossing the eyes not only of the actors involved but also of the countries.

Pollutec exhibition will be held in Lyon (France) on 12-15 October 2021. Pollutec is an environmental and energy solutions exhibition. It is established as the reference event for environmental professionals. It is a platform for environmental and energy solutions for industries, cities and territories, and a springboard for market innovations and international development. It will be the venue for more than 400 conferences and 2,200 exhibitors, an opportunity to stimulate exchanges between stakeholders in France and internationally.

*Note: the conferences of the exhibition are accessible for free to all and broadcasted live on zoom, if you are interested please find the full program of the 4 days on this link: Pollutec Program.
No registration is required.

The Mediterranean High-Level Policy Dialogue (MED-HLPD) is the sustainable energy platform that brings together high-level representatives from international financing institutions, banks, private sector, international and regional organizations and governments. The dialogue sheds the light on the need for regional cooperation between the above-mentioned stakeholders in the Northern African and the Middle Eastern countries to facilitate sustainable investments in the Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) sectors in the region.

National energy efficiency action plans (NEEAP) and renewable energy action plans (NREAP) as well as published first nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the UNFCCC Paris agreement show a large potential for RE and EE investments in the MED region. Eight countries who specified the cost of measures within their NDCs announced the need for about 150 Billion USD for implementation until 2050. However, climate finance supported the MED region with only about 13 Billion USD during the period 2003-2017.

The MED-HLPD will take place on 11-12 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium with the aim to scale-up investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation projects of 8 participating States.

Hosted by the Tunisian National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME), the meetMED training on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources in Buildings has been organized by ANME, the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) ,in cooperation with the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), as part of the meetMED activities.

The training will rely on training packages jointly designed by ANME, the Portuguese Energy Agency (ADENE), the Jordanian National Energy and Research Centre (NERC), the French National Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME), CRES and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA).

The training packages have been developed by building on sustainable energy toolkit previously designed in the framework of other projects, such as: MED – ENEC “Energy Efficiency in the Construction Sector in the Mediterranean” , IMPULSE “Integrated Management Support for Energy Efficiency in Mediterranean Public Buildings” , SHERPA “Shared knowledge for Energy renovation in buildings by Public Administrations” , CA-EPBD “Concerted Action Energy Performance of Buildings Directive”, SwitchMed , the Global Alliance for Building and Construction, as well as other bilateral trainings and capacity building technical assistance programs.

The event will take place on 24-28 February 2020 in Tunis, Tunisia. Its goal is to provide information about the implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the building sector in a context of improved multi-level governance and adaptation of EU legislation to local context in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries.

Target participants are public authorities and the private sector in charge of and/or interested in increasing the implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the local building sector.

Meeting in the framework of the UfM REEE Platform Working Group on Energy Efficiency (EE) in Appliances (with a special focus on air-conditioning)

Organised under the auspices of the Union for the Mediterranean, this meetMED workshop on Energy Efficiency in Appliances will take place on 04-05 December 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The event will gather national experts, who are members of the UfM REEE Platform Working Group on energy efficiency (EE) in appliances – established in January 2019 (at the annual meeting of the UfM Energy platforms) – and the meetMED taskforce on EE in appliances.

The sessions will have a specific focus on regulatory and institutional aspects; monitoring and evaluation processes and structures; energy efficient air-conditioning systems; possible replacement and appliances’ scrapping systems; barriers to trade and investments in energy efficient appliances. The meetMED report on the “Assessment of electricity consumption of household appliances in the Mediterranean region” will also be presented, as well as a report on the “Current quality infrastructures in the Mediterranean region”.

Policy and regulatory risks and barriers for the financing of Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are affecting the investment climate in most of the Mediterranean countries. In order to examine the root causes of this phenomenon, ENEA has led the meetMED activity tasked to investigate and gather updated information on the national economy of Algeria and Palestine, as two representative meetMED target countries. In particular, the research focused on the investment climate in the energy sector, the energy market structure, successful business models and the legislative framework for EE and RES investments.
The collected data have been gathered in two different meetMED Investment Country Reports, aimed at giving a brief and up-to-date picture of the EE and RES markets in Algeria and Palestine.
The workshop presents preliminary meetMED reports on Algeria and Palestine in the presence of the representatives of the public and private sector, financing institutions and banks, experts and researchers, regional and international organizations as well as of the civil society. On the one side, the event will be an opportunity to highlight the current barriers faced by domestic and foreign companies, which want to invest in energy efficiency and/or in renewable energy in these two countries; on the other side, possible solutions to overcome legislative and institutional gaps will be identified.

Organized by the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), the meetMED Workshop on the Investment Climate for EE and RE in Selected Mediterranean Countries will take place on 04 December 2019 in Rome, Italy. This workshop is back-to-back with the “Rome MED 2019 Mediterranean Dialogues”, organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) on 5-7 December 2019.

Industries and enterprises working on EE and RES in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) are growing but currently not structured. Local markets are quite competitive and currently no policies are implemented to support and promote their development neither their synergies. Since they face competition from outside the region and they look for neighboring markets to be adapted to their specificities, structuring EE and RES enterprises in the SEMCs could facilitate the creation of synergies and partnerships that will promote EE and RES in the region.

This sub-regional workshop aims at  presenting to the Algerian industries’ representatives and key stakeholders from the Maghreb countries the benefits of the creation of an industrial association for EE and RE at national and regional scale. The main findings of a study conducted on the EE and RE markets in the Maghreb and Mashreq regions will be shared with the participants, who will also have the chance to exchange their experiences relative to similar associations in the region. Finally, participants will explore possible modalities for supporting the creation of industrial associations that will serve, then, as a basis for the creation of a well-structured industrial association.

Co-organized by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) in collaboration with the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) and the Algerian Agency for Energy Management (APRUE), the Workshop “Mobilizing the Private Sector for the Energy Transition in Algeria and in the Mediterranean Region” will take place on 21 November 2019 in Algiers, Algeria at the presence of relevant stakeholders of the RE and EE sectors in the SEMCs.

The event is by invitation only.

Industries and enterprises working on EE and RES in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) are growing but currently not structured. Local markets are quite competitive and currently no policies are implemented to support and promote their development neither their synergies. Since they face competition from outside the region and look for neighboring markets to be adapted to their specificities, structuring EE and RES enterprises in the SEMCs could facilitate the creation of synergies and partnerships that will promote EE and RES in the region.

In an attempt to shed the light on the evolving importance of industrial associations in developing the RE and EE sectors at national and regional level, this meetMED sub-regional workshop focusing on the Mashreq countries aims at presenting the main results of the studies conducted, at exploring further possible modalities for supporting the industrial associations in the RE and EE fields and at finding shared suitable clustering methods at the presence of different regional stakeholders.

Organised by RCREEE in the framework of the meetMED project, the sub-regional workshop on “The creation of Regional Industrial Associations for the manufacturing of EE and RES Components” will take place on 13 November 2019 in Cairo, Egypt at the presence of relevant stakeholders of the RE and EE sectors in the SEMCs.

Co-organised by ADEME, ANME and ALMEE, this second regional meetMED workshop on Monitoring EE and RE Indicators in the Mediterranean Region will take place on 21-23 October 2019 in Tunis, Tunisia, and it is meant as the follow up event to the first workshop held last March in Beirut.

By supporting national agencies working in EE-related fields, it builds on the results of the MED-IEE1 project, which, between 2010 and 2013, compiled reliable data about EE indicators used in Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and Tunisia between 1990 and 2010, having allowed for reliable comparison. This workshop aims to update these indicators for the 2012-2017 period and to adapt to the new expectations of each of the target countries. At the end of this work, four national reports and a regional report on EE trends in the region will be prepared.

In the context of the Paris Agreement, countries must resolutely commit to EE policies, and measure their impacts, particularly on the climate. The SEMCs detail the measures to be put in place by sector in the 3-year National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs). Monitoring the NEEAPs requires the definition of reliable indicators for assessing impacts, measuring progress and better defining realistic targets. Indicators will be tested in Tunisia and Lebanon and then presented in a final report.

This second regional meetMED workshop aims at supporting national teams in analysing indicators, preparing their national reports and identifying specific country needs for further studies.

The event is by invitation only.

Following on the scoping missions conducted in Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt, this event aims at presenting the collected results about the EE and RE market potential areas with higher impact on local economy and job creation in these representative countries, with a particular focus on which sectors are labor-intensive, and which parts of the relevant value chains can create a higher local value.

Organised by RCREEE, this regional conference takes place in Cairo, Egypt on 12 November 2019, at the presence of the most relevant energy stakeholders from the SEMCs and aims at presenting the main results of the research regarding the EE and RES market potential, value chain, local manufacturing and job creation. Furthermore, the event is an opportunity to brainstorm on possible ways to create a tool capturing all the effects RE and EE have on the creation of local value at the regional level.

The meetMED training seminar on the methodology for the elaboration of energy audits in industrial Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) is taking place from 8 to 12 December 2019 in Cairo, Egypt.

Hosted by the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), this event is co-organized by CRES (Greece) and the ANME (Tunisia).

The course is designed to provide meetMED REN experts with the necessary skills and knowledge to improve energy efficiency and profitability in the industrial sector and to gain required methodology for the completion of a thorough energy audit. Furthermore, the course will include exchange of best practices in planning and implementing EE plans and related measures for industrial SMEs between meetMED targeted countries as well as deliver established best practices for optimizing energy-intensive equipment and systems.

Target participants are public agencies, industrial sector, energy experts in charge of promoting EE programs and application with a focus on the industrial sector.

Quality for RES and EE products and services has become increasingly important as RES and EE applications (e.g. building insulation materials, energy efficient windows, solar water heaters, energy-efficient appliances) are being largely used in the Mediterranean region. In order to ensure minimum standards, necessary quality infrastructures should be available for the successful implementation of specific RES and EE programmes. Those quality infrastructures include laboratories, testing facilities, as well as inspection, certification or accreditation bodies.

This workshop is an opportunity to convene national and regional consultations with groups of experts, through sessions that will be dedicated to verifying and discussing the results collected through the questionnaires with respect to the level of quality control infrastructures in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMCs) as well as to analyzing their needs, opportunities, weaknesses and strengths.

Furthermore, the event aims to compile all stakeholders’ opinions and recommendations for developing a regional quality market for RES and EE sectors with significant suggestions on how that could be implemented in the different SEMCs.

This regional workshop will take place in Algiers, Algeria next on 30 October 2019 and will be attended by representatives of conformity assessment bodies, metrology institutes, standardization organizations and accreditation councils from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan.

Regional energy experts and industrial associations will actively contribute to the discussion in order to build up a shared consolidated approach aimed at the creation of a regional quality harmonized market.

The event is by invitation only.

Organised by the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management (MEDENER) in close cooperation with the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), the 7th MEDENER International Conference on the Energy Transition in the Euro-Mediterranean region will take place on Thursday 26 September 2019 in Rhodes, Greece.

This year we will focus on «Sustainable Energy Solutions for Islands and Remote Areas: Front-runners for the Energy Transition in the Euro-Mediterranean Region».

The 7^th MEDENER International Conference will shed the light on the latest solutions for energy efficiency, renewable energy production, energy storage facilities, demand response systems, low carbon transport and sustainable water and waste management. It will also emphasize the role of circular economy investments boosting economic self-sufficiency and inclusive growth in isolated territories and in the Mediterranean region.

If you wish to receive further information, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Alice Giallombardo, meetMED Communication Officer, at alice.giallombardo@medener.org.

The first meetMED training seminar will take place on 07-11 July 2019 in Algiers, Algeria.

Its purpose is to train public authorities to use a sustainable energy policy design toolkit, which has been jointly elaborated by ADENE, ANME, CRES and ENEA.

This toolkit includes guidelines for public authorities on the use of sustainable energy design and financing tools as well as guidelines for improving multi-level governance in the Mediterranean area in the field of sustainable energy planning and for better adaptation of the EU legislation to local contexts in the Mediterranean countries.

If you wish to participate, please contact Alice Giallombardo, meetMED Communication officer, at alice.giallombardo@medener.org .

The meetMED workshop on EE in Buildings will take place on 18 June 2019 in Tunis, Tunisia.

Hosted by ANME and organised by ADENE together with ADEME, ALMEE and RCREEE, this will be an opportunity for the task force on EE in buildings of the meetMED Regional Expert Network (REN) to meet and present case studies from their own countries on the existing policies for EE promotion in the building sector.
Participants will also debate the implementation of national and regional policies supporting the deployment of EE measures in buildings in the Mediterranean region.
During the workshop, the meetMED REN will also define the content of the meetMED report on EE in Buildings, which will focus on the Mediterranean countries targeted by the meetMED project: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.

The meetMED Workshop on Monitoring  EE and RE Indicators in the Mediterranean will take place on 20 – 22 March 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Following-up the results of the MED-IEE1 project, which compiled reliable data about EE indicators used in Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and Tunisia between 1990 and 2010, the Workshop will now update the collected data according to the new specific national needs by looking into the period 2012- 2018.

In the framework of the Paris Agreement, all countries need to implement stricter EE policies and to measure more accurately their impacts on climate. As others, the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries have elaborated National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs) indicating sector-specific measures to be implemented at the national level.

Monitoring the NEEAPs requires the definition of reliable indicators to assess the impact of policies, measure progress and identify possible next steps.

For this reason, this Workshop will aim specifically at:

• Introducing meetMED objectives and expected outputs;
• Creating a task force on EE indicators;
• Creating a task force to using EE indicators databases;
• Identifying specific support needs in each country, if necessary;
• Exchanging best practices on monitoring tools.

 

The event is by invitation only.

The High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) is a platform on sustainable energy that brings together high-level representatives from international financing institutions, banks, private sector, international and regional organizations and governments.

The HLPD sheds the light on the need for regional cooperation among the above-mentioned stakeholders in North African and Middle Eastern countries, in order to further facilitate sustainable investments in the Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) sectors in the region. Furthermore, it discusses the investment and financial tools in the fields of RE & EE that would foster climate change mitigation, while taking into account the countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions, and benefiting from EU’s experience in these policy domains.

The first working session will be held on 30 January 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.

Focus will be given to identifying new operational business models that could stimulate investments in these sectors.The outcomes of the dialogue will be helping in better formulating a mid to long-term cooperation between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean countries.

*The event is by invitation only.

The meetMED workshop on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Strategies and Policies will take place on 03 October 2018 at the Royal Scientific Society premises in Amman (Jordan), as a parallel event to the 6th MEDENER International Conference on Energy Transition in the Euro – Mediterranean Region.
This workshop will serve as an opportunity for the meetMED Regional Experts Network (REN) to meet for the first time and present Country Policy Papers prepared by experts from Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries (SEMC) and best practices and/or case studies prepared by REN experts from non-SEMC.
Participants will debate policy developments, best practices, initiatives and ideas that support the move towards clean, secure and efficient power in the Mediterranean region as well as monitoring tools for EE and RE indicators.
During the workshop, the meetMED REN will also define the content of the meetMED report on EE and RE strategies and policies, which will focus on the Mediterranean countries targeted by the meetMED project: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.

Please, find the final agenda here.

Access to the event is by invitation only.

The Mediterranean Association of the National Agencies for Energy Management (MEDENER) and the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) are pleased to announce the launch of the meetMED project.

The project, funded by the European Union,aims atfosteringenergy transition in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countriesand atsupportingthe Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Platform (REEE platform)

The launch event will take placeon Friday 18 May 2018 at the UfMHeadquartes in Barcelona, Spain.