Jordan’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Fund (JREEEF) launched on 7 September 2026 a project to install solar-cell systems on 18 municipal buildings in the country’s southern region. Jordan’s Petra News Agency reported that this phase followed completion of similar work in northern municipalities. The report did not state the capacity, cost or installation schedule for the 18 buildings individually, so nationwide programme figures should not be attributed to the southern phase alone.

Petra described the southern launch as part of a broader national programme. That programme covers solar systems at 188 municipal buildings across 104 municipalities and has a combined capacity of about 3.4 megawatts. These measures describe the programme as a whole, separately from the newly launched southern phase. The report did not state the exact share of the 188 buildings represented by the 18 southern sites, the capacity at each building or the investment cost of this phase.

The agency said the nationwide programme is expected to save about JD550,000 a year in electricity costs and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by about 3,838 tons a year. The source frames these as expected annual outcomes, not measured results. They refer to the programme across 104 municipalities and should not be presented as the expected result for only the 18 southern buildings. The report does not give a start year for the estimates or describe the calculation method.

The programme also plans to train more than 550 municipal staff through two training packages. Petra said the training is intended to help staff operate and manage the systems. “More than 550” is a lower bound, not an exact count of graduates. Because the training target applies to the overall programme, the report does not support calculating how many people will train in the southern phase or estimating a separate employment effect.

Ministry representatives said installations in the earlier northern phase helped reduce operating costs and electricity bills. The report, however, provides no comparison period, billing data or percentage saving. The comment is therefore a qualitative description of the earlier phase. The extent to which the southern installations produce similar results can be measured after systems are installed and operating; those measurements were not included in the launch announcement.

Petra placed the project within the government’s effort to extend renewable-energy programmes across Jordan and a partnership with Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MASE). The agency described support for clean-energy projects, emissions reduction and municipal staff training as elements of that cooperation. It did not publish funding shares, a contract value or a division of responsibilities between partners. The data table keeps the 18-building launch separate from programme-wide targets and estimates.