Analysis of Photovoltaics in Egypt using SWOT and PESTLE

Over the last few years, the Energy Sector in Egypt has had to embrace a number of steep challenges. The immediate challenge was electricity shortages caused, in part, by a lower amount of domestic gas production. This is now being addressed through a number of supply and demand-related initiatives such as new production units, and the increased development of renewable energy technologies in particular, Solar photovoltaic and Wind power resources capitalizing upon Egypt's natural advantage in this area as well as the possible. For the importance of promoting photovoltaic most of the studies focused on the technical and economic factors that influence PV penetration. Other authors have emphasized the importance of decreasing the passive impact of using conventional electricity production by using renewable resources such as PV. This paper describes the formation and application of the SWOT and PESTLE methods for analyzing
the photovoltaic state of the art, potential, and future prospects for the development of photovoltaic systems in Egypt. These include small and large-scale photovoltaic electricity generation, photovoltaic systems production, and installation. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the SWOT method are discussed. Also political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental for the PESTLE method are discussed. Installed capacities and types of energy sources in Egypt are presented, including the progress and use of photovoltaic systems. Finally, general recommendations for the development of photovoltaic systems in Egypt are reported.