The REMAP project is structured along five main work programmes and the related deliverables:
- State of the art and synthesis of the renewable Atlas in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean area. The objective will be to gather the existing information on renewable energy potential resources in the region, and specifically wind and solar and to synthesise these information into a regional Atlas.
- Identification and prioritisation of potential demonstration sites for wind and concentrated solar projects in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean area. The countries concerned by the REMAP research project are Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan and Turkey. As far as possible, studied projects will also concern water desalination applications. This WP will allow identifying a portfolio of the most promising wind and CSP projects in the participating countries. Also, needs (if any) for further research/activities regarding projects identification and designing will be identified.
- Commitments towards wind and energy concentrated solar thermal energy integration in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region. The work will consist in the record a set of commitments to be made by energy agencies, utilities, energy manufacturers and banks to push forward a few wind and concentrated solar thermal energy projects in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean area. This would be obtained within the organisation of national and regional workshops with participation of major stakeholders. By the end of this WP, stakeholders committed to the selected projects will be known. Also barriers (if any) to engagement of investors will be identified along with activities to address these barriers.
- Adapted financing schemes. A financial parameterised model for the wind projects and the solar thermal power stations will be elaborated. These models will be based on technological characteristics, resource characteristics and local economic circumstances. The models will give a full overview of all the important financial parameters: expected turnover, expected cost levels, investment levels, depreciation and financial costs and will provide projected profit and loss accounts, projected balance sheets and projected cash flow statements. For this purpose a Financing Advisory Board will be set at an early stage of the project. This Board will gather several financing institutions and banks on international (such as EIB, CDC, AFD, private funds, carbon funds and/or others) and national level (to be identified by local partners). The conclusions of the discussions will materialise in an overview of which financing approaches are most realistic, what the particularities are of the proposed financing schemes (per project), what the potential consequences are in terms of guarantees by suppliers or others, required by the financing partners and which risk factors are potential no-go’s for commercial investors.
- Management, Action Plan, exploitation and dissemination. The objectives are to assure the best co-ordination and management of the project and to disseminate the non-confidential results. A website for the project will be developed and extensively used for communication between partners and towards potential users of the results. The aim will also to elaborate an action plan for financing and implementing wind and concentrated solar thermal projects. Further activities to be undertaken will be considered separately for CSP and wind projects and included in the Action Plan. The whole results will be also synthesised in the REMAP Action Plan to be ready by the end of the project. A side event will be organised at the end of the project with participation of the actors involved in the wind power and solar energy technologies in the European countries and Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries.
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