EGYPT: The United Nations Atmosphere Programme (UNEP) has been performing on a feasibility examine for a seawater air conditioning method in New Alamein Metropolis, on the north coastline of Egypt.
In a region where by city temperatures can strike 40ºC from Could to September, it is estimated that 50% of electrical energy goes to air conditioning through the peak summertime months.
New Alamein is currently below construction in northwest Egypt. It is located on the Mediterranean coastline, around 85km west of Borg El Arab Worldwide Airport. The town has its own presidential palace and ministry constructing, a few universities, fifteen skyscrapers and higher rise towers, and 10,000 hotel rooms. Get the job done has begun on Period II of the New Alamein megaproject, which incorporates ten added coastal towers.
The challenge would use cold water from deep in the Mediterranean and to begin with consist of a single district cooling plant to be constructed above two many years. Its ability of 30,000TR would be ample to awesome complete neighbourhoods and would price tag an estimated US$117m in developing output facilities and a further US$20-25m for the distribution community.
The feasibility review to evaluate the prospective for district cooling in New Alamein City is expected to analyse irrespective of whether it would be financially and technically practical to establish a district cooling answer that would reduce or stay away from making use of HFC refrigerants.
The analyze was initiated via the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol, and UNEP supported the improvement of an institutional framework.
In Egypt, UNEP’s OzonAction staff is also supporting the enhancement, update, enactment and enforcement of specialised nationwide codes for ACs, district cooling and refrigerant management, as effectively as green procurement procedures.
The UNEP-led Cool Coalition is aiding towns in India, Viet Nam and Cambodia establish environmentally-friendly cooling approaches. It is also supporting the construction of networks of freezers that can hold anything from farm deliver to Covid-19 vaccines.