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
