| Leading Actor(s) |
Governments of Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco and Spain |
| Participating Actor(s) |
KfW Bankengruppe of Germany, United Nations Environment Programme-Global Environment Facility (UNEP-GEF), UN-Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), IEA SolarPACES Implementing Agreement, European Solar Thermal Industry Association (ESTIA), US Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), New Energy of Algeria (NEAL), New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) of Egypt, Office National d'Electricité (ONE) of Morocco |
| Main objective(s) |
Support the creation of adequate market conditions conducive to build new CSP plants and to expedite the deployment of 5,000 MWe of CSP plants by 2015. |
| Contents |
To account for the differences between countries in the development of CSP-related policy instruments and in the amount of their solar resource, the CSP GMI participants have defined three regions with a different strategy for each. Region I include those countries and states that have already partially implemented the policy measures recommended by the CSP GMI or that will implement such measures in the near-term. Region II includes those countries that are or will soon be connected to Region I countries for transnational power exchange. Region III includes developing countries not interconnected to the grid of Region I countries. |
| Expected results |
Realisation of 5,000 MWe of new Concentrated Solar Power plants by 2015 |
| Target area / place |
Global |
| Arrangement(s) for financing |
Funding is sought from the participants and multilateral financing institutions. Initial funding has been provided by the German Ministry for Environment, IEA SolarPACES, UNEP-GEF, KfW Group and numerous industrial sponsors for the preparatory conferences in Berlin, Palm Springs and Bonn |
| Monitoring process and time frame |
Implementation timeframe until 2015 with annual progress monitoring. |
| Other relevant information |
GMI Brochure (download http://www.solarpaces.org/GMI/GMI_09.pdf) GMI Endorsement Statement of the Renewables2004 Conference |
| Link(s) |
http://www.solarpaces.org/GMI.HTM
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