SOLAR ATLAS

METHODOLOGY

Egypt is a place with a serious amount of solar energy potential and its exploitation is critical for a national sustainable development through an efficient energy planning and a gradual independence from fossil fuels. Equitable access to energy is a basic requisite for economic development and an important condition to galvanize economic activity. Demographic trends in Egypt require informed long-term planning of energy sector investments on the national level to expand existing electricity production capacities and meet growing demand. Egypt has conditions for the largest production of renewable energy in the world and as a result there has been demonstrated market traction for the region’s solar power in a growing export market for clean energy. The real-time and climatology services of this website come to fulfill these regional needs for optimum solar energy exploitation and for active and effective integration of these technologies to the national sustainable development economies and strategies. The quantification of the clouds’ and aerosols’ impact on the solar energy potential guarantees the reliability of the services.