Amman- 8 March 2021
The German Jordanian University (GJU), partner of the ENI CBC Med funded ‘ESMES’ project hosted the first meeting of the Jordan National Energy Hub, in the Bristol hotel in Amman on the 24th of February 2021.
The meeting was attended by representatives from government, electric utilities, private companies and universities.
A governing charter was presented and agreed upon. ESMES staffed moderated a discussion on policy and technical issues facing the renewable energy sector in Jordan, public building retrofitting, best practices and investment opportunities.
The input from stack holders is valuable to guarantee that the outputs of ESMES not only meet project goals and objectives, but may also be distributed to recent actors in the field to have the most impact.
The ESMES project addresses growing energy demand, fossil fuel dependence and increasing CO2 emissions in the Mediterranean area through fostering renewable energies and reducing energy use, with the common perspective of adapting to climate conditions and finding innovative, effective ways of optimizing renovation investments in public buildings. The objective of WP3 is to develop knowledge and operational capacities of national, regional and local energy and education institutions to plan, implement and evaluate energy rehabilitations that are sustainable, cost-effective and tailored on building types & uses, energy loads and climatic zones. One energy hub is set up in each country to provide room for knowledge exchange and cooperation among project partners, associates and external stakeholders.
Attendees represented: Irbid District Electric Company (IDECO), Mustakbal Clean Tech, Electric Distribution Company (EDCO), EDAMA Association, Izzat Marji Group, Ministry of Education (MoE) and The University of Jordan.
The Hub agreed to meet once a year for the duration of the project, interact through an online platform when needed, provide recommendations to be used for the project capitalization plan, reviews current policies, procedures, strategies for rehabilitations management, and propose 3 best practices, stressing challenges and breakthrough, help draft energy mix efficiency strategy, reviews monitoring driven rehabilitation case study prepared by GJU and support the implementation phase through a school visit.
http://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/esmes