Electricity Sector Transitions Assessment of the Potential of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in the Red Sea Ahmed Al-Balawi, Nora Nezamuddin, Frank Felder, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Amro Elshurafa Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) have recently gained traction and are being installed in several regions of Europe and Asia. These turbines use the same technology as typical offshore wind turbines but are not directly anchored to the seabed. Instead,… Ahmed Al-Balawi Nezamuddin, Nora Felder, Frank Muhsen, Abdelrahman Elshurafa, Amro
The U.S. Hydrogen Production Tax Credit (45V) – The Cause of an Ideological Fault Line In 2022, the U.S. passed the “Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)” – legislation that appropriated ~$370 billion as subsidies for measures dedicated to improving energy security and accelerating the clean energy transition, making it the single largest investment in climate and…
Electricity Sector Transitions Revitalizing Relationships for the Clean Energy Souk Jitendra Roychoudhury, Ahmed Al-Balawi, Amro Elshurafa, Marie Petitet The GCC countries have been trading for millennia, and energy transition offers new opportunities to revitalize existing trade relationships and form new partnerships driving growth through innovation. Read More Here Roychoudhury, Jitendra Ahmed Al-Balawi Elshurafa, Amro Marie Petitet
The Cost of Green Hydrogen Production in Saudi Arabia and Germany: A Model-Based Approach Khalid Alhadhrami, Ahmed Al-Balawi, Shahid Hasan, Amro Elshurafa With over seventy countries setting net-zero commitments by or around mid-century, low-carbon hydrogen (H2) is expected to play a pivotal role in the decarbonization of the global economy, especially sectors less dependent on electricity, which are often termed as hard-to-abate… Khalid Alhadhrami Ahmed Al-Balawi Hasan, Shahid Elshurafa, Amro
Finding Opportunity in Economic Dispatch: Saving Fuels Without Impacting Retail Electricity Prices Marie Petitet, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa For important domestic public policy reasons, many oil- and natural-gas-producing countries allocate fuels to their electricity sector at administratively set prices that are below fuel opportunity costs. This article shows that dispatching power units based on fuel opportunity costs can… Marie Petitet Felder, Frank Elshurafa, Amro
Electricity Sector Transitions Charting the Evolution of Electricity Sector Startups: A Methodological Note Rolando Fuentes This commentary provides an update on ongoing research on innovation in the electricity sector. This project aims to identify emerging technologies early, anticipate changes, and discern the key drivers and their connections in the innovation landscape. This research can serve… Fuentes, Rolando
Trends in Global Solar PV Installation in 2022 Amro Elshurafa We briefly comment on global solar PV installations for 2022, and provide insights on the record-breaking trend that this industry has been witnessing for the past 15 years. Elshurafa, Amro
