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Yemen has the lowest access rate to electricity (i.e. 40 percent of the population) compared to the regional rate of around 85 percent. Inequalities in terms access to electricity exists among rural and urban households. Although rural accounts for about 75 percent of population, only around 23 percent have access to electricity compared with about 85 percent of urban population. Despite the low access rate of electricity, only about one-half of those populations are connected to public grid, and the other one-half gain access through other private sources including diesel generators which usually operate for few hours for lightening, and less-intensive electric appliances. Alternative lighting devices are being used by non-grid electrified rural households including kerosene Lamps (about 67 percent) and Lequified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Lamps (about 5 percent) which have serious environmental impacts. On the other hand, renewable energy share is estimated about 0.009 percent of the total energy mix.
Power sector and Renewable Energy in Yemen
Yemen, a country located at southern east of the Arabian Peninsula, it's a semi-arid country with interior high mountains, upland desert, and long semi-desert coastal plain across the Red Sea and Arabian Sea. The country is characterized by hot and clear weather. Temperatures are generally very high, particularly in the coastal and desert areas. Geographically, Yemen is located in the Sunbelt area of the world. It is endowed with solar energy radiation ranges between 6.8–5.2kWh/m2 per day and annual average of daily sunshine ranges between 7.3 and 9.1 hours/day. Even in winter, the daily average of sunshine hours is estimated of about more than 8 hours per day. a few research studies have been done to explore the potentiality of RE resources examined the feasibility of introducing a PV/Wind/Diesel/Battery HPS in Sana’a and Aden. Authors found that Wind/Diesel/Battery could be the best scenario for implementation in both cities
Renewable energy Indicators
Fifty-one percent of Yemenis access electricity either fully or mostly using solar panels, according to the findings of a study conducted by PERCENT in January 2017 on a national sample of 1,000 respondents in all Yemeni governorates. The reliance on solar panels as a source of energy has significantly increased since As the country’s central electricity system breaks down, solar panels have become a mainstay of Yemen’s ancient, richly ornate architecture.
Electricity supplies are down 70 percent since lack of new station. Many households in the capital now have power less than six hours per day. With higher fuel prices as a result of the war, private generators are simply too expensive for most people to operate. But for many Yemenis, the answer lies in the sky.
Cheap Chinese solar panels can provide a household with enough energy to operate lights, a washer, and a television each day, and they go for as little as $80 in local markets. Once they have been purchased, the electricity costs go to zero. In the two years since the conflict broke out, solar energy production in Yemen has quadrupled. Still, storm clouds are looming. In the chaos of a wartime economy, low-quality and counterfeit products have seeped into the market.
installations suffer from high failure rates due to improper system design, poor quality components, and a lack of after-sales service. Households that gain access to electricity
through solar are thus at a risk of losing it again in case the system fails
The renewable energy natural resources in the country is very high in volume and high potentials in different green energy sectors.
Yemen has excellent solar potentials to fill the exiting energy gap. solar energy market prospects are unlimited in the other hand, solar market has lack of limited services or private small scale network providers in addition, electricity power generators consumers are increasing and diesel generators small-scale electric providers are starting in replacing solar market because most of products are from china concerning they are cheap.
The second reason of electricity power generators on grid providers is that no on grid solar on grid scale providers.
Unfortunately, even electricity power generators providers are struggling of continues breakdown and cut out electricity, mainly of high cost of diesel in addition, even mis maintenance and inefficient off grid applications or new solutions for small scale network stations or community energy.
Our vision
In Support for sustainable Development preliminary targeting for developing community stability, culture and creativity gaining power to transform entire societies, strengthen local communities and forge a sense of identity and belonging for people of all ages. seeking to operate under the thematic areas of majority of Social development, Education, poverty reduction, food security & healthcare, support infustruture projects manpower empowerment and social services. we seek to create a future of hope for under-served men and women and their communities by helping them to build their skills and resources to reduce their vulnerability in a sustainable way.
Therefore; we would like to mobilize international specialized firms interested participate to provide energy power to more than 20,000,000 million new consumers and to engage in the Yemen well emerging renewable energy market. And very much we are optimistic to provide and serve more than 20 million yemeni consumes striving for new solutions for electricity/energy power
we are in a position of developing partnership in representing your organization of new tech energy providing methods and high quality services in my country – Yemen..