The government of Egypt is set to construct solar stations & chargers with solar-powered display screens at Cairo Airport following the signing of a cooperation protocol that will see the provision of technical and financial support for the supply, installation, and operation of the said facilities.
The protocol was signed by Abu Sunna, the CEO of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA); Mohamed Abdel Karim, the Executive Director of the Industrial Modernization Centre (IMC); Magdy Ishaq, the Chairperson of Cairo AirPort Company; and Ayman Mohamed, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The solar-powered display screens at Cairo Airport project will be implemented with financial and technical support from the EEAA, and the national project for small grid-connected solar cell systems that is spearheaded by the IMC in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility.
Scope of the project
According to Yasmine Fouad, the Minister of Environment, Trade & Industry, the project entails the construction of small solar cells stations connected to the network and chargers equipped with solar-powered display screens in certain places at the airport.
It also includes the installation of a measurement system to keep track of the performance indicators of the solar systems and the rates of electricity exchange from the solar cell system to the electrical network.
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Ms. Fouad stressed that integrating the environmental dimension into the civil aviation sector is among the priorities of the state to work on more sustainable airports, as the integration of the environmental dimension into the policies and various sectors of the state has become tangible and cannot be dispensed with or ignored.
Upon completion, the project is expected to have an environmental return in the form of reduction of emissions, a social and educational return through the generation of electric power using solar/renewable energy, and an economic return as a result of the expected savings from electricity bills.
