The purpose of this study is to assess the policy-relevant effects of incorporating a more proper representation of electricity transmission in multi-sector national policy models. This goal is achieved by employing the KAPSARC Energy Model (KEM), which is the first publicly available large-scale energy policy model for Saudi Arabia. Past studies using KEM have examined industrial pricing policy, residential energy efficiency, the prospects of power generation technologies, and residential electricity pricing. These studies have shown that under certain fuel pricing scenarios, significant renewable energy capacity is deployed. With large-scale renewable technologies introduced in the power system, representing transmission more appropriately becomes important. By incorporating a direct current optimal flow model, our results show • the optimal investment in utility-scale photovoltaics are 30 percent lower, and the weighted average marginal costs of delivering electricity are 100 percent higher, compared to a model that has a transshipment formulation,• a version of KEM with a single node in each region for transmission and without transmission losses provides valuable insight while keeping the model size tractable,• the market-clearing price of natural gas in a deregulated environment modifies slightly, demonstrating that a transmission component predominantly affects the operations of the power system. Although the scarcity of natural gas increases slightly due to lower PV deployment, its greater use by power generators is minor. © 2018 The Authors
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يعمل وليد على نمذجة أنظمة الطاقة. وقد طوّر ولا زال يطور المكونات التالية لنموذج كابسارك للطاقة: توليد الطاقة الكهربائية، وتكرير النفط، والبتروكيماويات والأسمدة، وإنتاج الأسمنت، والحديد، والفولاذ. كما يعمل على وضع إطار عمل للاستخدام السكاني للكهرباء من أسفل إلى أعلى، وفيه يدمج الاقتصاد الجزئي مع القوانين الفيزيائية التي تحكم استخدام الكهرباء.
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- نمذجة أنظمة الطاقة، آليات التحسين، أسعار الكهرباء، كفاءة الطاقة، الحقول المتداخلة بين اقتصاديات الطاقة والهندسة
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