Progress

Market potential in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
January 15, 2007
The market potential analysis of the solar cooling technologies in the food & agro industry sector has started. The study aims to identify which industries would most benefit from the application of solar cooling technologies, on the basis of their cooling demand profile. A survey is being conducted among several companies in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

Medium temperature collectors evaluation
December 1, 2006
A comprhensive evaluation of medium temperature solar themal collectors has started. The evalutaion aims to select the most appropriate collectors for the two experimental sites. Collector manufacturers are being contacted in order to assess performance, durability, production capacity and cost of their products.

Kick-off meeting in Taormina
November 28, 2006
The MEDISCO kick-off meeting has been held in Taormina on November 25-28, 2006. The project rules and the work organisation have been presented by the project coordinator and work package leaders to the attendees, coming from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Spain & Tunisia. The first working meeting will be held in Egypt on May, 2007, when the preliminary results of work packages 1 & 2 will be presented to the project consortium.

Source: MEDISCO Project web site