This fact sheet presents best practices and tools for large-scale deployment of renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) techniques. After introducing the international context, it discusses wind and solar technologies and their existing large-scale applications. It provides comments on the investments and the commercial viability of renewable energy projects and presents renewable potentials in the ESCWA region. It finally addresses the issue of energy efficiency and concludes with some remarks on how to promote the deployment of large-scale RE and EE techniques.

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Organization: UNESCWA

Topics: Finance, Energy, Technology, Economic Analysis, Policy Instruments, Financial Mechanisms

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2009

Language: English