AMMAN -- The Jordan River Foundation (JRF) is currently assessing applications submitted by some 200 community-based organisations (CBO) to join a nationwide project to facilitate the installation of solar panels in households.
"We are now examining the financial and administrative situation of CBOs that applied," JRF Director General Ghaleb Qudah told The Jordan Times on Tuesday.
He added that JRF staff will visit these CBOs in the next few days.
JRF said earlier that it will select 70 organisations from the country's 12 governorates to help in the implementation of the project, which seeks to ration the use of energy.
"We expect to select the CBOs that will be part of the scheme in a few weeks and sign the agreements with them in May," Qudah noted.
"Then, the project will be implemented immediately and the door opened for citizens to benefit from it."
Under the project, selected organisations will contract with solar panel manufacturers and sell them to interested families through instalments.
JRF will give the money to the CBOs, which will be in charge of buying the solar panels for citizens and collecting monthly instalments from them.
The project envisages the installation of 2,500 solar panels in 2013 and another 1,000 in 2014, with a target of 5,000 over the next five years, according to the JRF.
It will be implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, which will provide JRF with the required funds.
© Jordan Times 2013
