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NEWSLETTER

Volume 1, Issue 1 August 2012

I N S I D E TH I S I S SU E

1 Members of Board List of Names.

2 The Steering Committee list of names

and their current roles within the

committee.

3 The CMS Communication Platform of

SEDA

4 The Institutional Building Capacity of

SEDA and its progress

5 The Hospitality Sector Mechanism.

6 The SWH Market Study done by

EGYTALIA.

7 SEDA in Munich at the Intersolar 2012.

8 Legalization of SEDA

9 Product Development Network.

DEAR SEDA MEMBERS,

We are honored to present our first "NEWSLETTER"

in 2012 that will be published on a bimonthly

basis. The purpose of this Newsletter is to keep

you informed of current SEDA activities and

plans and share the outcome of any meetings

that took place between members of the

Steering committee and the board members

along with other related meetings with different

bodies.

MEMBERS OF BOARD

- Eng. Khaled Gasser "Chairman"

- Mr. Ahmed El Sherif "Secretary General"

- Mr. Wael Sabry "Vice Chairman"

- Dr. Mohamed Al Morsi "Board Member"

- Eng. Amr Farouk "Board Member"

THE STEERING COMMITTEE

- Eng. Mohamed Saadawy

- General Mohamed Abd Al-Hi

- Dr. Sameh Aziz "Treasurer"

- Eng. Moustafa Al-Zoughby

- Eng. Fathi Sokkar

- Mr. Mohamed Dagher

- Board Members.

The CMS Communication

Platform of SEDA

Currently we are working on SEDA's

communication platform where we are going to

have a huge website through which we will

communicate with all Solar Energy projects in Egypt

and around the world. The CMS will enable us

advertising SEDA's activities online as well as

promoting the business of SEDA's members as the

website of SEDA will work as a Directory for all

Solar Energy industry players in Egypt and outside.

Also, the portal is planned to be informative one, so

that it provides our online visitors with all the

information about the Solar industry e.g events,

seminars, workshops, trainings, newsletter,.....etc.

The Institutional Building

Capacity of SEDA

The Steering Committee of SEDA is committed

to building a sustainable and powerful

institutional system capable of achieving its

objectives. In this way, we have written a paper

of Terms of Reference for our requirements for

Institutional Building capacity, where we have

communicated it with a number of Management

Consultants requesting their proposal on that

side.

The Hospitality Sector

Mechanism

We have established a Solar Water Heaters

financial mechanism (Scheme) to support

commercial sector (Tourism).

SEDA contracted with Samy Manski and Rafek

Mosoi as an international consultant to make the

marketing study for SWH, transfer the Tunisian

experience, and adopting it into Egypt.

SEDA contacted with the following stakeholders

to start promoting, executing, and capacity

building for a program to install 100,000 M2 in

hotels.

A. Ministry of Tourism

B. Chamber of Hotels

C. Egyptian national Bank

D.

E.

F. A number of International donors e.g

KFW and UNIDO

This initiative will be aligned with the Green

Tourism concept which announced by the

Minister of Tourism.

We are waiting for a political stability and

establishing of the new government to connect

again with the above mentioned authorities to

commence the execution of the program.

The SWH Market Study

done by EGYTALIA

SEDA contracted with EGYTALIA to make

market survey for the local manufacture of SWH

and the market size.

This study will be ready for sale and available

for all members.

Product Development

Network

The product development team has been

working on improving the solar water heaters

energy storage mechanism. The team is working

on two fronts; the first one is to examine a tank-

less design, while the second is to improve the

design of the energy storage water tank. For

these objectives, a setup is constructed at the

American University in Cairo to examine the

proposed different designs. Currently, the team

is examining the ability to have a tank-less

design, without sacrificing the performance of

the solar water heating system.

LEGALIZATION OF SEDA

We have done the procedures of establishing SEDA

at the ministry of the Social Integration. Finally, we

have got our license number of our establishment

by the central administration for associations.

A bank account is going to be opened under the

name of SEDA within the upcoming days, so that we

can deposit the membership fees submitted by all

members.

A location for SEDA was dedicated to be at the GIZ

Building - Downtown office 27A Abdel Khalik

Tharwat St., 2nd floor.

27 -

An Executive Secretary for SEDA was hired Ms.

Kawthar Boshra. Ms. Boshra works permanently

for SEDA. You can reach her at 02 239 14 816 ext.

122 from 10.00 AM to 3.00 PM.

We have considered hiring an Egyptian local lawye

for SEDA. The lawyer should take care of all the

legal issues of SEDA, provide us with the legal

consulting that SEDA requires within our scope of

work.

SEDA in Munich at the

Intersolar 2012

INTERSOLAR IS The world's largest exhibition for

the solar industry Intersolar Europe which took

place in Munich, SEDA was one of the exhibitors at

the Intersolar 2012 that was held from 13-15 June.

The Intersolar exhibition was well organized and

insightful.

Illuminated us on the next steps we should take.

SEDA's Intersolar representatives have met with

potential bodies/funder.

The Research & Development meetings were very

successful