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Energy productivity evaluation of large scale building energy efficiency programs for Oman

Sustainable Cities and Society

This paper outlines the benefits of large scale energy efficiency programs for new and existing buildings in Oman. In particular, an energy productivity analysis for these programs is carried out to encompass their overall impact for Oman’s economy. Over 75%…

منصف كرارتي, كانكانا دوبي

Determinants of energy productivity in 39 countries: An empirical investigation

Energy Economics

This paper uses three types of analysis to investigate the drivers of energy productivity changes occurring in 39 countries during 1995–2009. We find that increases in sectoral energy productivity were the primary driver behind economy-wide energy productivity improvements. Structural economic…

طارق عطاالله, Patrick Bean

تحديات الطاقة المتجدّدة والفحم في الهند: التنافس أم التكامل

Coal and renewables are seen as the cornerstone of India’s energy strategy to meet its growing electricity demand. These two energy resources are at different stages of legislative, policy, regulatory and institutional reform.

Fossil fuel price shocks and CO2 emissions: The case of Spain

Energy Journal

This paper focuses on the impact of oil, natural gas and coal price shocks on the Spanish business cycle from 1969 to 2013. It uses Bayesian procedures to estimate a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model for a small open…

هورهي بلازكوز, Jose Maria Martin-Moreno

تقييم قطاع النفط في أوغندا: تقدير مشاريع البحث والتنقيب عن البترول وتطوير حقوله وإنتاجه

كولن وارد

Uganda and other countries in Eastern Africa are on the cusp of developing many oil and gas resources, and there is reason for local content to be included in the discussion. As part of a larger research effort at KAPSARC…

كولن وارد

Modeling and forecasting electricity demand in Azerbaijan using cointegration techniques

Energies

Policymakers in developing and transitional economies require sound models to: (i) understand the drivers of rapidly growing energy consumption and (ii) produce forecasts of future energy demand. This paper attempts to model electricity demand in Azerbaijan and provide future forecast…

فخري حاسانوف, لستر هنت, جيهن ميكايلوف

ازدهار مكانة الغاز الطبيعي المسال كمصدر للطاقة

Dramatic changes in the global liquified natural gas (LNG) markets are already visible through market dynamics and stakeholders’ behavior, but many other signs point to much more significant changes to come – a great reconfiguration, which could transform the way…

أثر اضافة الخلايا الشمسية على نظام انتاج الكهرباء في السعودية

عمرو الشرفاء, وليد مطر

Intermittent generation from wind or photovoltaics (PV) imposes a cost on the power systems in which they are deployed. These costs vary regionally due to different fuel costs and ramping flexibility of existing grid capacities. With 2015 as a reference…

عمرو الشرفاء

وليد مطر

تقنيات نقل الغاز الطبيعي المسال الى قارة أفريقيا

Though Africa is traditionally considered as an exporter of pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), in future it could come to be seen as an LNG market. Until recently, financing issues, market conditions, price sensitivity and the small size…

Leveraging Intellectual Capital to Enhance Collaboration and Technology Deployment While Mitigating Freedom to Operate Risks in the Partitioned Zone

ماجد السويلم

Saudi Arabian Chevron, Inc. (SAC) established a robust, evergreen Intellectual Property Program to manage its intellectual property assets across the onshore portioned zone. The program applies Chevron’s intellectual property asset management system and accounts for government regulations and specific intellectual…

ماجد السويلم

A tutorial on building policy models as mixed-complementarity problems

Interfaces

After 50 years of development, building and solving mixed-complementarity problems (MCPs) have become commonplace for policy models that analyze markets. These models are used to develop policies that reshape markets, or introduce markets that replace other organizational forms. In this…

فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو, Yves Smeers

Economic impacts of debottlenecking congestion in the Chinese coal supply chain

Energy Economics

The fast pace of development in China’s coal industry created bottlenecks in its transportation infrastructure. These bottlenecks likely affected not only China’s domestic coal market, but also global coal markets. In this paper, we estimate the costs and consequences of…

برتراند ريو, فيليب جالكين, فريدريك ميرفي, أكسل بيريو

Is unbundling electricity services the way forward for the power sector?

Electricity Journal

High penetration of distributed energy resources will lead to further fragmentation of the power sector, both in the services offered and its value chain. Successful business models will be those that are able to create new products, establish more efficient…

رولاندو فوينتس

النشرة البحثية الربع سنوية: الإصدار الثالث

آثار اكتشافات النفط والغاز الجديدة على الاقتصاد الكلي في الدول المنتجة حديثًا

Macroeconomic impacts from developing a country’s natural resources can occur much earlier than initially expected. There is evidence that just the announcement of a large oil or gas discovery can affect the economy.

تقييم بناء خيارات استثمارية في كفاءة الطاقة في المملكة العربية السعودية

كانكانا دوبي, نيكولاس هوارث, منصف كرارتي

This study suggests that energy efficiency programs in buildings can provide up to a 27 percent reduction in electricity consumption and a 30 percent reduction in peak electricity demand for Saudi Arabia. It is well recognized, however, that given the…

كانكانا دوبي

نيكولاس هوارث

منصف كرارتي

تأثير ارتفاع كفاءة الطاقة على التنمية والرفاهية عبر الأجيال في المملكة العربية السعودية

Energy policies in the oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region influence their domestic growth in the long run. Accordingly, they also redistribute income across generations over long periods. In this paper, we use MEGIR-SA to assess the…

آثار سياسات الطاقة على الرفاهية والاقتصاد الكلي في دول مجل التعاون الخليجي: نموذج

MEGIR – Model with Energy, Growth and Intergenerational Redistribution – investigates the long-run implications for growth and equity across generations of different energy policies. It is the first general equilibrium model with overlapping generations to be developed and applied for…

النقل تحت الطلب: آثاره على الطاقة وامكانية اعتماده

Major transformations are taking place in the mobility sector; where a transportation system comprising of shared, fully electric, connected and driverless cars available on demand may be on the cusp of emergence. Technological developments and preferences of the next generation…

The prospects for coal-fired power generation in Saudi Arabia

Energy Strategy Reviews

Almost all of Saudi Arabia’s electric power generation is fueled by oil and gas. Plans for future capacity envisage nuclear and renewables supplementing this mix and thereby freeing up oil for other revenue-generating opportunities. Coal-fired generation has been promoted in…

وليد مطر, Rodrigo Echeverri, أكسل بيريو