MENA regional lighting policy facts

  • Annual electricity consumption 925.6 Twh.
  • Annual CO2emissions 1,994.4 million tons.
  • More savings are achieved if other inefficient technologies are phased-out from the street, public, commercial or industrial sectors.
  • Phasing out inefficient lighting in the region would save:
    • Nearly 31.8 Twh of electricity (an average of 6%)
    • Nearly 10 Mt of CO2 (2% of the total )
    • This would be equivalent to removing about 5 million vehicles off the road.
  • Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are responsible for 65% of the region’s energy consumption.
  • Six countries distributed 100 million CFLs: Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Morocco and UAE.
  • Three countries have IL phase out target dates: Egypt, Tunisia & Lebanon
  • The cost for the region to transition to efficient lighting would be US$2,8 billion, with a simple payback of 1.7 years.
  • First National Energy Action Plan (NEAP) in the region 2011 refers to a phase out plan for inefficient light sources in households (Lebanon).
  • Best practice in supporting policy exists such as CFL VAT exemption (Jordan).
  • Work on promotion of CFL’s in the region started in 2005.