Photovoltaic Market in Lebanon Opportunities and Barriers

1. Energy Lebanon Session1:Strengths,Weaknesses,OpportunitiesThreats .Overview of the Solar Photovoltaic Market in Lebanon 5 June 2014 Planit for Life Photovoltaic Market in LebanonOpportunities and Barriers By Mr. Rabih Osta Area General Manager

2. Overview • Phoenix Group: Global Presence Map and activities • Barriers : of the PV solution market • Driving initiatives • BRSS • Simulations • Recommendation

3. What is good for our community and our staff … Is good for our companies 2014 Over 55 companies Over 9400 Employees Around the Globe

11. Phoenix Cluster Phoenix Machinery Phoenix Technology Phoenix Energy Phoenix Technology USA Phoenix Innovation USA Phoenix Technology UAE

12. Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio

13. Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio

14. Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio Power plants

15. Phoenix Energy Competitive Advantages • Emerging from its sister companies: • Phoenix Technology USA built a 550kWp PV system in Savana (USA) in 2009. • Phoenix Technology Holding Built a 30MW Biomass power plant in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2011 • Phoenix Machinery is a SIEMENS solution partner with Automation engineers, steel structure designers, and a team of highly skilled technicians and a project management division • Phoenix Energy is Yingli Energy Partner (largest PV manufacturer in the world) • Phoenix R&D center

16. Current PV situation in Lebanon: Barriers • 98% electrified and isolated sites are rare • EDL still have monopoly • Electricity tariffs have not changes for 15 years • Electricity tariffs do not cover the real cost of production and distribution. • An inadequate consideration of the environmental impact and public health due to atmospheric pollution.

17. Barriers • No laws allowing the Access to the Grid through feed in • Lack of Environmental Commitment. • Small available areas in the country . • NO Buy-Back for Excess Power in case of the Net metering . • Limitation in the Net Metering to 60 KVA • Political instability and political prioritization

18. Driving Initiatives • At the level of Policies and Legislations: The Net metering has been launched in 2011. • Availability of Funding: NEEREAplayed a major role in availing the funds for PV • The participation and commitment of the private sector • The Public Awareness is also playing a major role in spreading the Electrical solar systems: through a lot of technical conferences, workshops , training • Commerciality and Competitiveness: A lot of competent local organizations are now active in the market • . , Here

19. Beirut River Solar Snake • LCEC and the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water launched the BRSS Project expression of interest (EOI) bid in April 2013 . • With 25 out of 56 interested companies  major companies bidding for the project, only 11 companies passed the technical stage. • 5 companies entered the final stage • Phoenix  – ASACO joint venture won the bid based on: • Highest technical score • Best price 

20. Beirut River Solar Snake - Design • Beirut River Solar Snake or BRSS, is a 1.08 MWpPV plant • Stretched over the river bed of 32 meters span and more than 300 meters long • Built over a river with an area of 10452 m2 • Ability to generate 1620 MWhAnnually • A substation is also offered that will contain the control room and the MV equipments .

21. Beirut River Solar Snake - Design • PV array is made of 3600 YINGLI panels YL 300p-35b • 60 string inverters • Panels are physically divided into 30 sheds (60 panels each) • Thisdecentralizedtopology offers: • Increased availability of the plant (above 99%) • Large MPPT numbers decreasing mismatch losses • Lower Maintenance costs • Modular and Expandable

22. Beirut River Solar Snake

23. Beirut River Solar Snake

24. Simulations • Simulation 1: highlighting the favorable geographical Location of Lebanon • System Capacity : 200 KWp • Estimated Project Price :300,000 USD

25. Simulation 1

26. Simulation 2: highlighting the Advantage of the on-Grid solution

27. On Gird PV system /sync with Generator • The system runs in sync with the Grid or the Generator • The inverter is in charge of the synchronization with the other sources. • Automation system is added to ensure proper operation with the generator • The Automation system shuts down the inverters sequentially to keep the PV production less than the demand in Generator Mode • The Automation system is also responsible to protect the generator from running on IDLE mode, in case the demand is low.

28. On Gird PV system - Concept Gird is ON PV Inject to grid if PV> LOAD Automation System

29. On Gird PV system - Concept Gird is OFF PV Automation System

30. Simulation 2

31. Recommendation • Well distributed Grid and less black outs •   An attractive feed in tariff and a long period guarantee • Tax exemption and incentives / rebate program for Renewable energy products • Removing the custom duties on the renewable Energy products •  Implementation of CDM and Green Credits

32. Thank You Rabih Osta Area General Manager Rabih.osta@phoenixlb.com www.phoenixlb.com