• essay n°1

    I’m learning English, and am trying to improve my writing skills, so I will write out essays, feel free to comment my papers and correct  errors, I’m sure that there is a lot of them.
    But even this I’m not less proud of my below essay, my first readable….
     
    Algeria and renewebale energy ?

    Now that oil prices are skyrocketing, and climate change is becoming a global concern, more and more countries are willing to gain independence from fossil energy by shifting to the renewable energies like; wind, hydropower, solar, biomass, and geothermal.
     What’s about Algeria?
    Algeria with huge oil and gas resources is the forth world gas exporter and eighth oil producer and exporter, but with relatively small consumption inner market, even with the fast growth pace.
    Despite the proven reserves of oil with 25 years of lifetime ahead with the actual production rhythm and 50 years for gas, Algeria is now seeking others resources of energy, and solar power seem to be the most suitable, and the most available.
    So far solar energy power in Algeria were restrain only in providing electricity to remote small villages in the Sahara region, photovoltaic panels were used to that end, Very low output of those photovoltaic panels and very high prices of silicon the row material used to produce them had been hindrances to wide use and probably will remain.
    The other technology that seems to have a brilliant future is the CSP or Concentration Solar Power. this technology is based on the generation of heat by the use of parabolic mirror, concentrating sun beam in a kind of glass tube where special oil circulate, this oil will then reach high temperatures of about 600 degrees Celsius, this very hot oil will be gathered in a boiler where water steam will be generated and will be used to spinning a turbine and thus producing electricity.
    The first project the CSPP1 of Hassi R’mel, is ongoing of building and is scheduled  to be commissioned in January 2011, with a capacity of 150MW of which 25MW will be solar.
    The main aims of this first power plant will be the mastering of this new technology (CSP) and to evaluate energy costs. Two other power plants are scheduled soon later (may be in 2012 and in 2014) in El Bayedh and in Touggourt with similar capacities.
    But what is 25MW or may be 75MW in the near future, in a market knowing a very fast growth pace of about 5-6% annually? Algeria is building huge power plants of 1200MW (one in Eddraouch east Annaba and one in Terga west of Ghazaouet) and has commissioned one of the same size. In brief, Algeria is planning the commissioning of more then 10.000MW in addition to the 9.000MW already installed capacity of gas fueled power generation plants in the 10 coming years. That is to say solar energy share will grow less quickly then fossil based electric generation and consequently will lose ground in the overall energy production.

    So how green energy will gain share part if they grow less quickly than fossil energy? Worse Algeria despite politician claims is losing ground in this field (SONELGAZ the country’s electricity producer has recently phased out a Hydro generation power plant of about 262MW).


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