Projects & Publications
COMPASSCO2 – Components’ and Materials’ Performance for Advanced Solar Supercritical CO2 Powerplants
COMPASsCO2 is a Horizon 2020 project under the SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industries) Research and Innovation Action (RIA). The project aims to integrate solar energy into highly efficient supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycles for electricity production. Concentrated...
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Gas Platform
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Gas Platform aims at establishing a regional structured dialogue allowing the gradual development of a Euro-Mediterranean gas market to promote security, transparency and predictability of both demand and supply in a manner that...
MEDENER/OME Joint Studies
OME/ADEME COP22 and beyond: Mediterranean Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and the Mediterranean Energy Transition Scenario and OME/MEDENER common publications on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the South and South East Mediterranean Countries...
EU-Turkey Energy Dialogue
The overall objective of the project is to establish strong links and a high level cooperation between civil society in Turkey and EU Member States through civil society dialogue in the area of energy security as concerns electricity and gas in particular around the...
MENARA – Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture
Mapping Geopolitical Shifts, Regional Order and Domestic Transformations The MENARA project will study the geopolitical order in the making in the South and East Mediterranean Countries and the Middle East amid all social and political changes unfolding since 2010....
BETTER – Bringing Europe and Third countries closer together through renewable Energies
BETTER project intends to address RES cooperation between the EU and third countries in several dimensions. The starting point is given through the cooperation mechanisms provided by the RES Directive, allowing Member States to achieve their 2020 RES targets in a more...
SHARAKA – Enhancing Understanding and Cooperation in EU-GCC Relations
Europe and the Gulf have a number of interests in common ranging from trade, energy and climate policies to education, culture and communication. The European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remain committed to promoting these mutual interests and to...
MED-EMIP – Euro-Mediterranean Energy Market Integration Project
The EU financed project, MED-EMIP, had an overall objective to support the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Energy Partnerships on key energy policy and industry issues. Two experts hired by OME and based in Cairo worked full time on the project. The first...
DNICast – Direct Normal Irradiance Nowcasting Methods for Optimized Operation of Concentrating Solar Technologies
About DNICAST Concentrating solar technologies (CST) have proven to be very efficient sources of clean power for the electrical grid. CST include thermodynamic machines, such as the concentrating solar power (CSP: parabolic troughs, solar towers, Fresnel collectors,...
ADETEF – FFEM – SOLAIRE
Plan Solaire Méditerranéen - Diverses Etudes d’Appui à la Structuration des Projets du Plan Solaire Méditerranéen (Composante 1) Le projet est financé par le FFEM (Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial) et bénéficie d’un appui de l’AFD, de la DGEC (MEDDTL) et de...
ARE I&T – Analysis of Renewable Energy Investments in the Mediterranean Region and developing potential of the different technologies
A case study for Morocco The aims of this internal study is to collect and analyze data about the most relevant defined or under development Renewable Energy plans and projects, in selected countries, and to organize workshops/roundtables with Renewable Energy...
GSWH – Global Solar Water Heating Market Transformation & Strengthening Initiative
The “Solar Water Heating Market Transformation and Strengthening Initiative” project, in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) aims at accelerating global commercialization and sustainable market transformation of solar water heating...
REALISEGRID
“Research, methodologies for the effective development of pan-European key GRID infrastructures to support the achievement of reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply” OME participates in Work-Package 3 and leads Work-Package 3.6. WP 3 is devoted to...
MED-CSD – Combined Solar Power and Desalination Plant
Techno-Economic Potential in Mediterranean Partner Countries MED-CSD is a 2-year project funded by the European Union DG-Research as part of their Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development. OME is the general coordinator. MED-CSD...
SECURE – Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainty, Risk and Economic implications
The Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainty, Risk and Economic implications project (SECURE) was funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The Project is aiming at building a comprehensive framework covering security of supply...
MEDRES – Cost-effective Renewable Energy for Rural Areas in the Mediterranean region
MEDRES is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission (DG Research) as part of their Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). OME is the project coordinator. The MEDRES project aimed at:1. Assessing the opportunities for cost-effective renewable energy systems in rural...
NEEDS – New Energy Externalities Development for Sustainability
NEEDS is a research project funded within the European Commission 6th FP of RTD. Its primary objective is to develop innovative research, and accordingly generate original scientific knowledge. The Final Conference of the NEEDS project took place in Brussels, 16-17...
REMAP
A 2-years project funded by the European Commission (DG Research) as part of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The REMAP project aimed at: 1. Identifying and prioritizing potential sites for Wind Power and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects in Algeria, Jordan,...