IdeaSpace Challenge: Energy

October 10, 2008 by RootSpaceOnline

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The Goal: Clean, sustainable, affordable, and reliable ENERGY.

Energy in Lebanon - Summary of the Challenge:

• Lebanon spends over $ 1.5 billion each year to cover the losses of Electricité du Liban.
• Energy outages are part of daily life in all of Lebanon, ranging from 3 hours per day in Beirut, up to sometimes 8 hours per day in smaller villages, with substantial share of the population not connected to the power grid at all.
• The Lebanese government is no longer capable of investing in the electricity sector because of the high budget deficit.
• A heavy reliance on fuel electricity generation plants for municipal power, and smaller private generators for when the municipal supply is adequate or cuts.
• Minimal access to alternative sources of energy; though solar water heaters are increasingly used and promoted.

Energy in Lebanon Resources:

• Electricity consumption and economic growth, the case of Lebanon (June 24, 2008)

• A solution for Lebanon's power shortage (YaLubnan; April 13, 2008)

• Policy development for solar water heaters: the case of Lebanon (Aug 11, 2000)

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