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Cross-Border Electricity Trading in the GCC Countries, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq: Hourly Market Coupling or Bilateral Agreements?

Science Direct

Marie Petitet, Benjamin Ricaud, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa

Are There Adequate Materials and Land Resources for the Saudi Power Sector to Achieve Net Zero by 2060?

Khalid Alhadhrami, Marie Petitet, Sarah Abuouf, Abdulelah Darandary, Timothy Laing, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa

Saudi Arabia has committed to net-zero (NZ) greenhouse gas emissions by 2060. This requires substantial emission reductions across key sectors, including the power generation sector. We assess the technological options, critical mineral requirements, renewable energy resource requirements, and costs associated…

Alhadhrami, Khalid

Marie Petitet

Abuouf, Sarah

Darandary, Abdulelah

Laing, Timothy

Felder, Frank

Elshurafa, Amro

Finding Opportunity in Economic Power Dispatch: Saving Fuels without Impacting Retail Electricity Prices in Fuel-producing Countries

Science Direct

Marie Petitet, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa

An Emerging Framework for the Probabilistic Cost- Benefit Analysis of the Reliability, Resiliency, and Adaptability of Electric Power Systems

Frank Felder, Marie Petitet

Probabilistic cost-benefit analyses of the reliability, resiliency, and adaptability of electric power systems can inform policymakers on how to efficiently reduce the frequency, magnitude, duration, and costs of power outages; how to cost-effectively improve the integration of variable and intermittent…

Felder, Frank

Marie Petitet

How Can Bilateral Contracts Support Electricity Trade? A Regional Electricity Model Perspective for the GCC Plus Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq

Marie Petitet, Benjamin Ricaud, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa

Cross-border electricity trading in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) can provide cost and environmental benefits. However, for historical reasons, electricity trading has not reached a mature stage in this region. Based on a bespoke economic dispatch model for…

Marie Petitet

Benjamin Ricaud

Felder, Frank

Elshurafa, Amro

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

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

Recent Developments and Trends in Cybersecurity in the Power Sector

Ahmed Al-Balawi, Frank Felder, Muhammad Khurram Khan

The power sector is a crucial component of critical national infrastructure, and its continuous and resilient operation underpins the socioeconomic prosperity of any nation. Energy security is a priority in many regions of the world, as it is essential for…

Ahmed Al-Balawi

Felder, Frank

Muhammad Khurram Khan

How Can the European Energy Crisis Reshape the Power Sector Reform Endeavors of GCC Countries?

Marie Petitet, Amro Elshurafa, Frank Felder

Energy prices in Europe have been soaring, and policymakers are trying to find solutions to immediately contain the energy prices for end-consumers and to enhance the market design in the longer term. This paper discusses some of the current events…

Marie Petitet

Elshurafa, Amro

Felder, Frank

Modeling of the Interconnected Middle East and North Africa Electricity System: Including Uncertainties to Better Inform Policymakers

Frank Felder, Marie Petitet, Shahid Hasan, Amro Elshurafa

The modeling of power systems can bring about insightful quantitative results to inform policymakers. This commentary reviews the literature on modeling the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s electricity interconnections and trade in the context of expanding variable and…

Felder, Frank

Marie Petitet

Hasan, Shahid

Elshurafa, Amro

An Overview of Integration Costs of Variable Renewables in the Power Sector

Faris Aljamed, Frank Felder, Amro Elshurafa

In recent years, the cost of electricity generated by renewables has significantly decreased to the point where it is cost competitive with conventional plants. However, incorporating variable renewable energy (VRE) technologies like wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) into the power…

Aljamed, Faris

Felder, Frank

Elshurafa, Amro

Making Electricity Capacity Markets Resilient to Extreme Weather Events

IAEE

Marie Petitet, Frank Felder

One Year After the Texas Blackout: Lessons for Reliable and Resilient Power Systems

Marie Petitet, Khalid Alhadhrami, Frank Felder

In February 2021, Texas experienced an extreme cold snap causing a dramatic electricity blackout that left millions of households without electricity, resulting in over two hundred fatalities and economic damages of approximately $100 billion. The Texas blackout has been used…

Marie Petitet

Alhadhrami, Khalid

Felder, Frank

How Firm Capacity and Forced Outage Rate Assumptions of Renewables Impact Capacity Expansion Model Results

Amro Elshurafa, Marie Petitet, Frank Felder

We assess how varying the firm capacity (FC) and forced outage rate (FOR) assumptions of renewable energy (RE) resources impact capacity expansion models (CEM). Eight scenarios that vary the FC and FOR, RE share targets, and annual RE uptake were…

Elshurafa, Amro

Marie Petitet

Felder, Frank

Systematically Mapping Innovations in Electricity Using Startups: A Comprehensive Database Analysis

Science Direct

Rolando Fuentes, Dongmei Chen, Frank Felder

What Innovations Are Chinese Electricity Startups Pursuing?

Rolando Fuentes, Dongmei Chen, Frank Felder

We provide a snapshot of the innovations that Chinese electricity startups are pursuing and compare them with the innovation efforts of their worldwide and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) counterparts. We contrast types of innovation, technological domains and focuses on megatrends…

Fuentes, Rolando

Chen, Dongmei

Felder, Frank

Modeling Cross-seasonal Fuel Savings From Load Shifting in the Saudi Industrial Sector and Interlinkages to Export Revenues

Science Direct

Salaheddine Soummane, Amro Elshurafa, Hatem Al Atawi, Frank Felder

How Firm Capacity and Forced Outage Rate Assumptions of Renewables Impact Capacity Expansion Model Results

Amro Elshurafa, Marie Petitet, Frank Felder

The undergoing energy transition relies heavily on the deployment of renewables such as solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power for the generation of electricity. These variable and intermittent resources would modify power systems’ reliability compared to the situation where electricity…

Elshurafa, Amro

Marie Petitet

Felder, Frank

Overbuilding Transmission: A Case Study and Policy Analysis of the Indian Power Sector

Science Direct

Frank Felder

Innovation by Gulf Cooperation Council Electricity Startups: A Global Comparison

Rolando Fuentes, Frank Felder

The electric power sector is the cornerstone for achieving the energy transition goals of economic progress, energy security and environmental improvements. Substantial and timely innovations are necessary to accomplish these goals. In this commentary, we investigate innovations in the electric…

Fuentes, Rolando

Felder, Frank

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