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Power Market Opening for Renewable Energy Case of Maghreb Countries

3 rd MEDREG-IMME Seminar Reform and Opening of Maghreb Electricity Markets. Session III : Mitigating the dominant position of energy incumbents . Power Market Opening for Renewable Energy Case of Maghreb Countries. 11-12 September 2013. Rim Boukhchina , Maged Mahmoud Technical expert.

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Power Market Opening for Renewable Energy Case of Maghreb Countries

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  1. 3rd MEDREG-IMME Seminar Reform and Opening of Maghreb Electricity Markets Session III : Mitigating the dominant position of energy incumbents Power Market Opening for Renewable Energy Case of Maghreb Countries 11-12 September 2013 Rim Boukhchina, MagedMahmoud Technical expert

  2. Who We Are RCREEE is an independent regional think tank organization created in 2008, owned by its Member States and hosted by Egypt Our Mission • A Significant Share of Renewable Resources and a Highly-Efficient Energy Consumption in the Arab Region

  3. Our Work Areas

  4. Liberalised Electricity Markets

  5. Increased efforts to integrate renewable electricity into their power markets. • Defined future shares of green electricity in their national generation mixes Algeria RE Maghreb countries profiles Tunisia Morocco

  6. RE Maghreb countries profiles RE MarketEvaluation

  7. RE Maghreb Market Evaluation Finance and Investment

  8. RE Maghreb MarketEvaluation Supportingpolicies

  9. RE Maghreb MarketEvaluation • Gridaccess

  10. RE Maghreb MarketEvaluation Institutional support

  11. RE Maghreb MarketEvaluation IPP State Utilities acting as (quasi-) monopolists in terms of electricity transmission and distribution (vertically integrated utilities)

  12. RE Maghreb Market Evaluation

  13. RE Maghreb MarketEvaluation • Electricityrates and taxes are often related in non-transparent ways in most Arab Countries due to The importance of Hydrocarbon potential in some Arab States, • Transparent Price signal in Morocco, • Fairly significant subsidy in Algeria, • Electricity still subsidies in Tunisia ElectricityPrices in Maghreb Countries US$/kWh

  14. Electricity Maghreb Market Evaluation • Grid interconnections Working on a Common Internal Electricity Market, and as a long-term goal, a gradual integration and regulatory harmonization with neighboring countries

  15. RE Maghreb Market Evaluation Algeria Grid Access

  16. RE Maghreb Market Evaluation Morocco Land allocation • Transparence price signal • Structured RE Sector Interconnection with Spain

  17. RE Maghreb Market Evaluation Tunisia • Feed-in tariffs • Fiscal support Small size market Strategic situation and proximity to Italy

  18. Conclusion • Focus on national market • Governments, Utilities, Regulators and System Operators must collaborate to establish rules and electricity market design and to create a competitive market through implementing specific regulatory framework and detailed legislation and support its further development. • Setting up an independent regulator. • Electricity infrastructure reinforcement • Tariff reform. • Establishment of an attractive market for the private sector with clear and concrete periodic RE targets. • Regional market : Grid Interconnection, Export, Electricity trade…..

  19. Relevant RCREEE interventions Arab Future Energy Index (AFEX)

  20. Thankyou Rim BOUKHCHINA & Maged MAHMOUD Senior Expert Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) Building of the Hydro Power Plants Execution Authority, 7th floor, Ministry of Electricity and Energy , MelsaDistrict – Ardh El Golf Nasr City - Cairo, Egypt rim.boukhchina@rcreee,org maged,mamoud@rcreee.org www.rcreee.org

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