Publications

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Circular Carbon Economy: Progress and Potential

Mari Luomi, Fatih Yılmaz, Thamir Al Shehri

Over the past year, all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have updated their medium-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets by submitting revised nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and…

Luomi, Mari

Yılmaz, Fatih

Al Shehri, Thamir

Nationalization of the Private Sector Labor Force, Quotas, Matching and Public Jobs, an Illustration with Saudi Arabia

Science Direct

Olivier Durand-Lasserve

Policy Responses to the Reliability Crisis in the Power Grid

Frank Felder

From China, Europe, Central Asia, India and to the United States, there is a reliability crisis in electric power grids. Why are power grids so brittle and what should policymakers do?

Felder, Frank

A Remaining Piece of the COVID-19 Puzzle: Saudi Arabia’s Remittances Account

Abdulelah Darandary, Muhammad Javid, Maria Alkhamees

It has been two years since the beginning of COVID-19, a one-of-a-kind crisis in recent history. The global economy was disrupted entirely in a few months and most economies faced shutdowns. While many disruptions can be explained, especially the economic…

Darandary, Abdulelah

Javid, Muhammad

Maria Alkhamees

KAPSARC Oil Market Outlook (KOMO)

The drivers of this quarter’s global demand outlook stem from multiple factors (i.e., the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, lower trade confidence, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike, overall downward gross domestic product (GDP) revisions, continued inflation and the recent lockdowns in…

How to Mitigate Transportation Emissions in Saudi Arabia? The Role of Energy Price Governance

Sa’d Shannak, Jeyhun Mikayilov, Rubal Dua

In light of Saudi Arabia’s recent energy-pricing reform strategy, this paper investigates the main drivers of fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the transport sector. We employed a battery of econometric techniques to analyze the long-run relationships between income, fuel…

Sa’d Shannak

Mikayilov, Jeyhun

Dua, Rubal

Current and Future Trends in Saudi Arabia’s Container Throughput

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Nora Nezamuddin, Rubal Dua, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

The maritime sector is a key pillar for the diversification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s economy, and it has been prioritised by the Saudi government due to its strategic importance. Saudi Vision 2030 has set a target for making…

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Nezamuddin, Nora

Dua, Rubal

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

The Current State and Future of Clean Hydrogen Projects Worldwide

Salaheddine Soummane

This data insight reviews clean hydrogen projects worldwide that are listed in the Hydrogen Projects Database of the International Energy Agency (IEA 2021), which covers hydrogen projects for “energy or climate change mitigation purposes” based on electrolysis, fossil fuels with…

Soummane, Salaheddine

The Implications for the Power Sector from Innovation by Startup Companies

Rolando Fuentes, Dongmei Chen

We compiled a multi-regional database of 320 startups from 36 countries whose focus is on new technologies in the electricity sector. To reach this number, we performed internet searches with neutral key words such as ‘startups,’ ‘electricity,’ ‘innovation,’ and avoided…

Fuentes, Rolando

Chen, Dongmei

Post-Covid Recovery of Air Traffic in Saudi Arabia

Abu Toasin Oakil, Andres Felipe Guzman, Rubal Dua, Abdulrahman Alwosheel

The dramatic drop in air traffic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the related travel restrictions has significantly impacted the aviation industry in Saudi Arabia and around the world. The sector has suffered considerable losses due to the reduction in…

Oakil, Abu Toasin

Felipe Guzman, Andres

Dua, Rubal

Alwosheel, Abdulrahman

Determinants of Remittance Outflows: The Case of Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Javid, Fakhri Hasanov

International labor migration has played a key role in the development of both advanced and developing countries. Many developing countries in Asia have relied on labor migration, mainly to the oil-rich Gulf region, to reduce both unemployment and poverty (Naseem…

Javid, Muhammad

Hasanov, Fakhri

Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach

Taylor & Francis

Thamir Al Shehri, Jan Frederik Braun, Nicholas Howarth, Alessandro Lanza, Mari Luomi

Unintended Transnational Effects of Sanctions: A Global Vector Autoregression Simulation

Taylor & Francis

Emre Hatipoglu, Jennifer Considine, Abdullah Aldayel

Understanding the Dynamics of Renewable Energy Transition: Country Performance and Potential

Fatih Yılmaz

Renewable energy (RE) is a vital stream of the global energy transition toward sustainable alternatives. Various mitigation strategies, such as enhancing energy efficiency, utilizing fuel switching, deploying nuclear power and adopting carbon capture, have been developed. Of these, RE has…

Yılmaz, Fatih

Understanding the Dynamics of the Renewable Energy Transition: The Determinants and Future Projections Under Different Scenarios

Fatih Yılmaz

The global energy system’s current structure has severe environmental consequences that necessitate an urgent transformation toward more sustainable alternatives. Besides many available mitigation actions, such as enhancing energy efficiency, deploying nuclear energy, switching fuels and adopting carbon capture technologies, renewable…

Yılmaz, Fatih

Moving Saudi Arabia’s Role in the Global Methane Pledge Forward

Rami Shabaneh, Bertrand Rioux, Fahad Bin Haji

In our previous Instant Insight, The Global Methane Pledge: What It Means for the Oil and Gas Industry Post-COP26, we shed light on the increased momentum behind the issue of methane emissions and how it is taking center stage in…

Shabaneh, Rami

Rioux, Bertrand

Fahad Bin Haji

The European Energy Collapse: A Chain of Contingencies or a Recurring Nightmare?

Zlata Sergeeva, Nikolay Fedorov

Choosing to rely exclusively on renewable energy sources (RES) and eliminating hydrocarbons can lead to significant difficulties for an energy system. Challenges may arise when energy storage is insufficient to guarantee a stable power supply. The lack of suitable technologies…

Sergeeva, Zlata

Nikolay Fedorov

Impact of Stay-home Orders on the Electricity Demand of Residential Buildings: Case Study of Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Aldubyan, Moncef Krarti

The analysis presented in this paper evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 stay-home order (or lockdown) on electricity consumption among Saudi residential building stock. Our analysis is based on an assessment of monitored data obtained for a sample of housing…

Aldubyan, Mohammad

Krarti, Moncef

Cross-seasonal Fuel Savings from Load Shifting in the Saudi Industrial Sector

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

Load shifting, that is, moving demand from peak to off-peak hours, is an important type of demand response. It can reduce the overall operating costs of a power system and improve the reliability of the power grid. This study estimates…

Soummane, Salaheddine

Elshurafa, Amro

Al Atawi, Hatem

Felder, Frank

Balancing China’s Energy Security and Its Transition to Carbon Neutrality

Dongmei Chen, Mari Luomi

At the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session held on September 20, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that China would reach peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. This is seen as a significant…

Chen, Dongmei

Luomi, Mari