Policy Options to Decarbonize the Energy Mix The objective of this research is to understand how different policy tools could expedite the transition toward a low-carbon economy... Past Project
Remote Sensing and Social Science This research program seeks to combine remote sensing and social science methods to study energy development, energy use and to... Past Project
Natural Resource-led Development in New Producing Countries Our project seeks to understand how natural resource extraction can drive inclusive economic growth in new producing countries. We... Past Project
Security of Oil Demand Our objectives are to quantify the benefits and costs of strategically allocating export barrels across key consuming regions to minimize... Past Project
Coal: Modeling a Complex Fuel Source Coal represented 30% of worldwide primary energy consumption in 2013 and would become the most consumed fuel through 2040, under... Past Project
Economics of Energy Vulnerability The price of crude oil halved in six months from July 2014 to January 2015 with differing impacts on the... Past Project
Energy Productivity This focuses on the role of energy in driving sustainable economic growth, particularly through enhanced economic diversification and energy efficiency... Past Project
Has Coal Come to a Fork in the Road? Fuel mix forecasts tend to fall into one of two categories. One says that coal, and fossil fuels more generally,... Past Project
Global Degree-Days Database Weather can have a profound effect on energy consumption, especially extremes of hot and cold temperatures. These variations, in particular,... Past Project
KAPSARC Energy Model (KEM) This project aims to develop a novel modeling approach that allows KAPSARC to analyze the effects of different types of... Models, Data and Tools Past Project
LNG Markets in Transition: The Great Reconfiguration The LNG industry is now facing a cliff. The question is whether it is standing at the bottom or at... Past Project
Energy Productivity in the GCC During the past decades of fast economic expansion the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have focused on economic growth and... Past Project
Comparison of Energy Productivity Across 39 Countries Energy productivity – the ratio of economic output per unit of energy use – is a metric that can inform... Past Project
CO2 Capture Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects This project aims to quantify a realistic worldwide potential of both the additional oil production from captured CO2 and the... Past Project
A Decision Support Tool to Assess the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Saudi Arabia This project investigates the optimal scenarios for meeting residential and agricultural water demand. A GIS decision support tool is used... Past Project
Economic Impacts of Debottlenecking Congestion in the Chinese Coal Supply Chain China’s coal industry grew at unprecedented rates during the first decade of the 2000s in order to support equally unprecedented... Past Project
A Framework for Comparing the Viability of Different Desalination Approaches This paper presents a cost calculator for estimating the costs of different solar desalination options compared to incumbent technologies in... Past Project
Embodied Energy in Trade: The Role of Specialization Many industrialized countries are net importers of embodied energy and emissions, while many developing countries are net exporters. We examine... Past Project
KAPSARC Energy Model (Saudi Arabia) The KAPSARC Energy Model for Saudi Arabia (KEM-SA) has been developed to understand the dynamics of the country’s energy system.... Regional Energy Markets Past Project
Resilient Cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council The Cooperation Council for the Arab states in the Gulf (the GCC) was conceived in 1981 to enhance economic integration... Past Project
