Planit for Life

Photovoltaic Market in Lebanon

Opportunities and Barriers

By

Mr. Rabih OstaArea General Manager

Energy Lebanon

Session1:Strengths,Weaknesses,OpportunitiesThreats .Overview of the Solar Photovoltaic

Market in Lebanon5 June 2014

Overview • Phoenix Group: Global Presence Map and activities

• Barriers : of the PV solution market

• Driving initiatives

• BRSS

• Simulations

• Recommendation

2014Over 55 companies

Over 9400 EmployeesAround the Globe

What is good for our community and our staff …

Is good for our companies

Phoenix Cluster

Phoenix Machinery

Phoenix Technology

Phoenix Technology USA

Phoenix Innovation USA

Phoenix Energy

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Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio

Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio

Phoenix Energy Product Portfolio

Power plants

Phoenix Energy Competitive Advantages

• Emerging from its sister companies:• Phoenix Technology USA built a 550kWp PV system in

Savana (USA) in 2009. • Phoenix Technology Holding Built a 30MW Biomass power

plant in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2011• Phoenix Machinery is a SIEMENS solution partner with

Automation engineers, steel structure designers, and a team of highly skilled technicians and a project management division

• Phoenix Energy is Yingli Energy Partner (largest PV manufacturer in the world)

• Phoenix R&D center

Current PV situation in Lebanon: Barriers

• 98% electrified and isolated sites are rare

• EDL still have monopoly

• Electricity tariffs have not changes for 15 years

• Electricity tariffs do not cover the real cost of production and distribution.

• An inadequate consideration of the environmental impact and public health due to atmospheric pollution.

Barriers

• No laws allowing the Access to the Grid through feed in

• Lack of Environmental Commitment.

• Small available areas in the country .

• NO Buy-Back for Excess Power in case of the Net metering .

• Limitation in the Net Metering to 60 KVA

• Political instability and political prioritization

Driving Initiatives

• At the level of Policies and Legislations: The Net metering has been launched in 2011.

• Availability of Funding: NEEREA played a major role in availing the funds for PV

• The participation and commitment of the private sector

• The Public Awareness is also playing a major role in spreading the Electrical solar systems: through a lot of technical conferences, workshops , training

• Commerciality and Competitiveness: A lot of competent local organizations are now active in the market

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, Here

• LCEC and the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water launched the BRSS Project expression of interest (EOI) bid in April 2013 .

• With 25 out of 56 interested companies  major companies bidding for the project, only 11 companies passed the technical stage.

• 5 companies entered the final stage

• Phoenix  – ASACO joint venture won the bid based on:• Highest technical score • Best price 

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Beirut River Solar Snake

Beirut River Solar Snake - Design• Beirut River Solar Snake or BRSS, is a 1.08 MWp

PV plant

• Stretched over the river bed of 32 meters span and more than 300 meters long

• Built over a river with an area of 10452 m2• Ability to generate 1620 MWh Annually

• A substation is also offered that will contain the control room and the MV equipments .

Beirut River Solar Snake - Design• PV array is made of 3600

YINGLI panels YL 300p-35b

• 60 string inverters• Panels are physically divided

into 30 sheds (60 panels each)

• This decentralized topology offers:• Increased availability of the plant

(above 99%)• Large MPPT numbers decreasing

mismatch losses• Lower Maintenance costs• Modular and Expandable

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Beirut River Solar Snake

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Beirut River Solar Snake

Simulations

• Simulation 1: highlighting the favorable geographical Location of Lebanon

• System Capacity : 200 KWp• Estimated Project Price :300,000 USD

Simulation 1

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Yearly savings

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Payback Period (years)

Simulation 2: highlighting the Advantage of the on-Grid solution

On Gird PV system /sync with Generator

• The system runs in sync with the Grid or the Generator

• The inverter is in charge of the synchronization with the other sources.

• Automation system is added to ensure proper operation with the generator

• The Automation system shuts down the inverters sequentially to keep the PV production less than the demand in Generator Mode

• The Automation system is also responsible to protect the generator from running on IDLE mode, in case the demand is low.

On Gird PV system - Concept

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Inject to grid if PV> LOADAutomation System

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On Gird PV system - Concept

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Automation System

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Simulation 2

Recommendation • Well distributed Grid and less black outs

•   An attractive feed in tariff and a long period guarantee

• Tax exemption and incentives / rebate program for Renewable energy products

• Removing the custom duties on the renewable Energy products

•  Implementation of CDM and Green Credits

Thank You

Rabih Osta

Area General Manager

Rabih.osta@phoenixlb.com

www.phoenixlb.com