On Wednesday the 1^st of February,2023, the second phase of the peer-to-peer networking partnership between UNIDO and Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC) aiming to foster energy efficiency and renewable energy in the petrochemical and plastic industries, conducted a new training session entitled “Thermal Energy Efficiency & Introduction to Solar Water Heating (SWH), Solar PV Systems and Waste Management.” The training session continued for 2 days and was delivered by accredited energy professionals and experts in the realm of Solar Water Heaters and Thermal Energy from “Chemonics Egypt Consultants”. The attendees comprised of 15 engineers affiliated to 6 different companies originally SIDPEC’s clients in addition to SIDPEC’s engineers who attended the training as a consequential phase to the first one which was conducted throughout year 2022. The first phase of trainings included energy management training sessions, motors, compressed air and pumps system optimization sessions and they were all delivered by SIDPEC’s accredited energy experts in the above.

The peer-to-peer networking partnership between UNIDO and Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC) aims to foster energy efficiency and renewable energy in the petrochemical and plastic industries through building technical capacity as well as providing technical assistance and feasibility studies that factories from plastic and petrochemicals sectors can use to optimize energy efficiency and cut down costs. This has in fact started to happen through applying better energy management systems, optimizing motor systems, optimizing pumps systems, and optimizing compressed air systems, all through the technical support and field visits that SIDPEC engineers have been paying to 5 manufacturing companies through December 2022. Such enhancements have cut down the manufacturing companies’ energy costs and reflected in their numbers after receiving the partnership’s offered trainings.

UNIDO and SIDPEC’s joint efforts with Chemonics Egypt Consultant work on enhancing the plastic and petrochemical factories’ performance through the offered trainings and feasibility studies in the current second phase of the partnership and that will help factories identify more saving opportunities to improve thermal energy efficiency and SWHs applications and utilizations.