Electricity is central to economic and social development and to quality of life. Demand for electricity is constantly rising under the pressures of demographics and industrialisation.
As fossil fuels run out, the challenges are multiplying- fuel price volatility, climate change from greenhouse gases, lack of energy supply.
The Mediterranean energy observatory (OME) has forecast annual increases in consumption of up to 6% by 2025 in SEMCs; these countries must improve their electricity generation and transmission capacity.
+/-MANAGING THE POST-CARBON TRANSITION
+/-TWO MAJOR PROGRAMMES
- Launched under the French EU presidency on 13th July 2008, UfM promotes new co-development policies within the Mediterranean. UfM brings together States from all around the Mediterranean plus the EU, a total of 43 countries.
- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey/li>