Capacity Building Program “Pricing Renewables: Feed-in Tariff (FiT) Design and Structure for Wind Farms and Solar Plants” - October 23-27, 2011

1. Renewable Energy in Libya
( The Future Prospectives )
Sunday - 23th of October 2011
Cairo

2. Libya - Overview
 Libya is approx. 1.76 million sq km with 6 million inhabitants.
 The Libyan electricity transmission system extends from the
Tunisian border in the west to the Egyptian border in the East,
2000 Km length and extends south nearly 900 km.
 The primary source of Power is Heavy & Light Fuel oil and
Natural Gas

3. Country resource
Resource Libya’s resources Libya in comparison
Proven oil reserves of 43 billions Largest oil reserves in
Oil BOE with significant additional Africa
potential
Gas reserves of 10 billions BOE Fourth largest natural gas
Gas reserves in Africa
Average solar radiation of 2,470 One of the highest solar
Solar kWh/m2/day radiation in the world
High average wind speed at Attractive global location
Wind several locations for wind farms

4. The electricity main key figures
Year 2010
Peak demand 5,282 MW
Installed capacity 6,196 MW
Generated energy 30,426 MWh
220 KV transmission system 13,695 Km
Load forecast
400 KV transmission system 1,307 Km 10-12%
growth/annum

5. Evolution of Electricity generation (2000-2010)
MWh

6. Electricity generation by fuel type (2010)
Heavy fuel oil
Natural gas (20%)
(38%)
Light fuel oil
(38%)

7. Electricity consumption per sector (2010)
Others
(23%) Residential
(36%)
Agriculture
(13%)
Commercial Industrial
(14%) (14%)

8. Existing and planned interconnection

9. RE Development in Libya
Libya is optimally placed to become a Renewable leader in the region
It can capitalize on Africa’s
1
growth and power demand
It can leverage its high
2
GDP and education level
It can exploit its significant
3
wind and solar potential Even though, Libya has
an important potential of
It can diversify and make solar and wind energy
4
its economy more resilient
but the role of these
It can further strengthen its resources in the energy
5 economy by adopting a mix is negligible
strategic RES development
plan

10. Solar energy potential
Solar radiation (kWh/m2/day)
 Average solar radiation of
2,470 kWh/m2/day
 one of the highest solar
radiation in the world
 Less than 1% of Libyan
land mass dedicated to
solar could potentially
satisfy Europe demand

11. Wind energy potential
Wind speed (m/s)
 High average wind speed at
several on and off-shore
locations (several locations
have an average wind speed
in the range of 6.5-10.5
m/s)
 Attractive global location
for wind farms, even at
today’s economics

12. Renewable Energy Authority of Libya
 Renewable Energy Authority of Libya (REAOL) was
founded in 2007 to promote the development of renewable
energy in the country.
 A goal has been set by REAOL to reach 10% of the energy
supply from renewable energy resources by the year 2020,
to achieve this target, several plans were decided.

13. Renewable energy plan in Libya (2010-2020)
2020
2015
10% RE Share
1500 MW Wind
6% RE Share 800 MW CSP
750 MW Wind 150 MW PV
2010 300 MW SWH
100 MW CSP
50 MW PV
150 MW SWH

14. Wind projects within the mid term plan
 Dernah wind farm Phase 1 - 60 MW (Under construction)
 Dernah wind farm Phase 2 - 60 MW (Awarded)
 Al-Maqrun wind farm Phase 1 - 120 MW (Awarded)
 Al-Maqrun wind farm Phase 2 -120 MW (Under negotiation)
 Western region wind farm - 250 MW (Under development)
 Southern region wind farm - 250 MW (Under development)

15. Solar projects within the mid term plan
 Large scale PV plant grid connected 15 MW (Awarded)
 Expanding the use of PV technologies to feed remote areas, 2 MW
 500 systems PV roof top systems to supply residential areas
 Construction of CSP ( Phase I) 100 MW ( Under development )

16. Main Barrier
 Subsidized electricity prices
 There is no legislation for renewable energy