Improving energy efficiency program in Egyptian governmental buildings

The demand on electricity consumption in Egypt has rapidly increased during the last two decades. The installed capacity increased from 2240 MW in year 1981 to 14600 MW in year 2003, whereas the electricity consumption increased from18 TWh to 79.8 TWh during the same period. The annual increase in electricity consumption within the last five-year plan 1997–2002 reached 7.6%. The Ministry of Electricity & Energy (MOEE) is exerting huge efforts to meet the annual increase in electricity demand. One of the effective measures adopted by MOEE to face this demand is to increase energy efficiency on both supply and demand sides. As the governmental sector is one of the high consuming sectors, it was decided to conduct a study aiming at recommending actions to be taken in order to implement energy efficiency measures in Egyptian governmental buildings.