A United Nations-backed fund is providing solar panels to generate electricity in 25 schools in southern Lebanon, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Tuesday.
The panels are replacing expensive and polluting diesel engines in the towns that suffered large-scale destruction in the 2006 conflict with Israel, UNDP said.
Some 36 additional sites across Lebanon, including seven schools, are set to receive solar-powered systems under a $10 million Country Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration for the Recovery of Lebanon (CEDRO) project which was started in 2007 by Lebanon, Spain, and UNDP, to increase use of renewable energy sources and cut consumption of national electricity supplies.
Like many public and private buildings across Lebanon, the schools experience daily blackouts that can last six hours or more. Solar-powered systems enable constant use of equipment, such as photo-copying machines, during sunny days which number more than 300 per year, UNDP said.
“Installing these systems must come with engraining the necessary awareness on the relationship between climate change, energy efficiency and renewable energy,” said Shombi Sharp, UNDP Deputy Country Director.
CEDRO is part of a larger UNDP programme to assist in the country’s recovery from the 2006 conflict which devastated the livelihoods of thousands of people, disrupted education of school-aged children and destroyed large parts of the south’s infrastructure, UNDP said.
Some 36 additional sites across Lebanon, including seven schools, are set to receive solar-powered systems under a $10 million Country Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration for the Recovery of Lebanon (CEDRO) project which was started in 2007 by Lebanon, Spain, and UNDP, to increase use of renewable energy sources and cut consumption of national electricity supplies.
Like many public and private buildings across Lebanon, the schools experience daily blackouts that can last six hours or more. Solar-powered systems enable constant use of equipment, such as photo-copying machines, during sunny days which number more than 300 per year, UNDP said.
“Installing these systems must come with engraining the necessary awareness on the relationship between climate change, energy efficiency and renewable energy,” said Shombi Sharp, UNDP Deputy Country Director.
CEDRO is part of a larger UNDP programme to assist in the country’s recovery from the 2006 conflict which devastated the livelihoods of thousands of people, disrupted education of school-aged children and destroyed large parts of the south’s infrastructure, UNDP said.
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