Analysis of Photovoltaics in Egypt using SWOT and PESTLE

Abstract

Over the last few years, the Energy Sector in Egypt has had to embrace a number of steep challenges. The immediate challenge was electricity shortages caused, in part, by a lower amount of domestic gas production. This is now being addressed through a number of supply and demand related initiatives such as new production units, and the increased development of renewable energy technologies in particular, Solar photovoltaic and Wind power resources capitalizing upon Egypt's natural advantage in this area as well as the possible. For the importance of promoting photovoltaic most of studies focused on the technical and economic factors influence to PV penetration. Other authors have emphasized importance of decreasing the passive impact of using conventional electricity production by using renewable resources such as PV. This paper describes the formation and application of the SWOT and PESTLE methods for analyzing photovoltaic state of the art, potential and future prospects for development of photovoltaic systems in Egypt. These include small and large scale photovoltaic electricity generation, photovoltaic systems production, and installation. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for SWOT method are discussed. Also political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental for PESTLE method are discussed. Installed capacities and types of energy sources in Egypt are presented, including the progress and use of photovoltaic systems. Finally, general recommendations for the development of photovoltaic systems in Egypt are reported.

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“…The text presents two analyses of photovoltaics in Egypt to be used as a template for market assessment in each subsequent country. The paper carries out a SWOT analysis to identify four determinants of PV development: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.The second analysis is PESTLE, and the authors used it to identify the key macroeconomic factors of the photovoltaic market in Egypt [28].…”