Atef
Tarawneh head of parliament said that alternative energy in Jordan is targeted
energy as a result of the lack of oil and other conventional energy sources.
He
added during opening ceremony of the second scientific day of the Faculty of
Engineering Technology in Zarqa University entitled "Alternative and
renewable energy,", that the generation of energy legislation carried out
by the Council of the Nation and that any civil or military party can generate
renewable energy in order to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce costs rates,
and give students the opportunity to present research and sale products arising
from them in order to support and impact university fees.
He pointed out that Zarqa University will be a model
in the electric power generation field in the future expecting it to reach high
rates in the production up to 10 MW, which will ease the burden of high prices
of electric power and will reflects positively on the Jordanian economy and the
students in Zarqa University.
Head
of university Prof. Mahmoud Al Wadi said that Zarqa University is working to
achieve the goals that contribute to the construction of the student's
personality in different dimensions, noting that renewable energy accounts for
the national and global attention because of its advantages compared to
conventional energy.
He
added that the university will open a new specialization of renewable energy
engineering from the beginning of next academic year, and will work to
establish a research alternative and renewable energy center to serve the
national applied research and to provide consulting, implementation of the
theoretical and practical sessions, pointing out that Zarqa company for
education and investment management is working to build electric power plant
using solar energy sources, in order to serve the university and provide clean
electrical energy to its surroundings, which contribute to the exploitation of
renewable energy.
For
his part, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Omar Al Omari explained
that the scientific day aims to contribute to the creation of a common
understanding of the importance of renewable energy, raise its efficiency and
achieve the concept of energy security, to overcome the challenges facing the
investment, and to contribute to finding energy solutions, noting that
renewable energy has established itself in the past As an alternative for the
recent fuel that observers warned us from after it proved near depletion and
the global reservoirs is over consummated.
The
scientific day included sessions on nanotechnology and its applications in
alternative energy, and oil shale as unconventional source of energy, green
buildings, the use of biogas in Jordan, solar energy usage and its applications
in Jordan, and wind energy.
At
the end of the scientific day opening chairman of Zarqa Corporation for
Education and Investment (owner of Zarqa University), Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shaera',
presented appreciation plaque to the President of the House of Representatives
in the presence of Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Rateb Al-Saud, and
President of the University Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Alwadi, and Reps. Ekrayem
Alawwadat and Dr. Mohammed al-Haj and a large number of energy issues concerned
people.
The
opening of the headquarters of Arab Universities Society professors of English
magazine
Head
of university Prof. Mahmoud Al Wadi opened the headquarters of Arab
Universities Society professors of English language and Literature and
Translation magazine at Zarqa University, in the presence of President of the
Society and the editor of the magazine Prof. Jihad Hamdan.
Al
wadi said that the university is working to provide all that is needed to
produce the magazine according to the best conditions, which contribute to the
constructive and fruitful communication in the professors’ service.
Dr.
Hamdan also expressed his thanks to the University for its outstanding and
continuous support to the Society and the magazine.