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GLOBAL
ENERGY NETWORK INSTITUTE
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31 March
1999
The
Good News from Egypt and Jordan!
Dear GENI
Friend,
Last month
you learned about the electrification of South Africa
and the interconnection between India and Pakistan.
While these stories rarely make headlines, the impact
of this development will benefit the daily lives of
millions of people.
Today is
another great story — that has been years in
the making. The new King Abdullah of Jordan and
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated an underwater
high-voltage cable between the two Arab nations. And
the engineers have plans to expand this power pool
by 2002 networking Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq!
A bit of
GENI history here will inform you to how we work:
- Six
years ago, Michael Fisher and I encouraged this
Middle East grid at the World
Energy Conference in Spain
- In 1994,
GENI helped coordinate an IEEE
panel of Middle Eastern power experts,
which was subsequently published in the
Power
Engineering Review in December.
- We met
with Egypt's Energy Minister during the 1995
United Nations Conference in Cairo
- Our
1997 newsletter included our 1995 letter to Shimon
Peres and all other Middle Eastern leaders to
the benefits of the electrical integration of the
region.
Did we
cause this Jordan-Egyptian project to be built? Hardly.
But we certainly pushed, educated, provoked and published
the proposal -- which we think accelerated this result.
That's
what your funding
goes for -- and it affects the lives of people who
you and I will never meet. This is how our results
show up in the world. The regional challenge now
is to include Israel and Palestine into this electrical
network. Newsweek wrote in 1993 -- Dreaming
Up Peace Projects . The more these nations interconnect,
the less likely they will fight.
In partnership
for the planet,
Peter Meisen
President
p.s. Please
feel free to send
this report to anyone you know with Middle Eastern
interests.
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GENI
is a U.S. Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Corporation committed
to improving the quality of life for everyone without
damage to the planet.
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Zealand, Singapore and United States.
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