What marked the renewable in 2014
Thursday, January 1st, 2015
2014 was marked, in Algeria, with the put into service of a pilot PV solar power plant multi technology of 1.1 MW in Ghardaia and wind power plant of 10 MW in Adrar, by the Ministery of Energy.
Furthermore, the Ministery of Agriculture and Rural Development, stengthended the installation of solar kits to the electrification and water pumping in the highlands and remoted areas. In this context, the CDER proceeded to the installation of more than 2500 solar kits for the electrification and the pumping.
In regulatory terms, laws texts guaranteeing the price lists of purchases for the photovoltaic solar energy and the wind energy, the capacity of which exceeds 1MW, were promulgated in April, 2014.
The renewable industry saw, this year, a qualitative leap with the launching of a production unit of PV pannels of a capacity of 50 MW by Condot Electronics Company.
This year also saw, the integration of reneawable energies as a vacational training option and The increase of the offers of Master’s degree and doctorate training in universities and academies. in the world, the capacity installed for the electric production would exceed 1700GW (approximately 3 GW in North Africa and the Middle East) what represents more than 22 % of the world energy mix. The capacities installed in the PV solar energy and the wind energy would overtake as for them 145 GW and 350 GW, respectively.
The considerable falls of the prices of the Wind energy (near $4c KWh) and of the photovoltaic solar energy (between 6,5 and $8c kWh, fall of 80 % since 2008) allowed the large-scale deployment of these sectors of the renewable in 2014.
At the same time, this year was marked by the fall in prices of lithium-ion batteries which was reflected on the growth of the storage capacity of the energy of renewable origin. During this year 138 countries possess policies in favour of the renewable. China, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Italy set as goal to install a capacity of 139 GW of the solar energy before 2020, equivalent to the world capacity installed in 2013, in PV solar energy.
On the other hand, 2014 was not sober in carbon and recorded a record rate of carbon emissions of 40 billion tons. The fifth report of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on the Evolution of Climate ( GIEC) published in November, 2014, recommends the use of clean energies and energy saving to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases ( GES) and keep the increase of temperature in 2°C.
At the end, the conclusions of the COP20 on climate changes held in Lima in December, 2014 advocate for the extension of the use of clean energies and call the parties to express their calculated commitments to the reduction of the GES. Many questions are adjourned for 2015, in particular those relative to the financing of the green fund climate and the mechanisms of support for developing countries to face the impacts of climate changes.
Prof. Noureddine Yassaa, Director of the EPST CDER

In the same section