A Multi-attribute Assessment of Electricity Supply Options in Lebanon

Farhat, Romy Abou; Mahlooji, Maral; Gaudard, Ludovic; El-Baba, Jad; Harajli, Hassan; Kabakian, Vahakn; Madani, Kaveh

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40052-1_1

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“…Also, the most important policy-making events of this emerging concept were discussed, including committees and conferences. Finally, some significant challenges and opportunities for implementation of the WEF Nexus, along with future visions, were presented Abou Farhat et al ( 2020 ) Book Chapter Attempted to help overcome energy sustainability challenges in Lebanon, while minimizing impacts on the country’s natural, economic, and value-added social resources, taking into account the climate, land, energy, and water (CLEW) Nexus. Proposed such a Nexus to increase the capacity of renewable electricity generation, as well as conventional power stations that run on imported fuels to ensure energy security.…”

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Water strategies and water–food Nexus: challenges and opportunities towards sustainable development in various regions of the World

Salem¹,

Pudza

Yihdego

2022

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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The twenty-first century is witnessing an explosion in global population, environmental changes, agricultural land disintegration, hunger, and geopolitical instabilities. It is difficult to manage these conditions or standardize improvement systems without thinking of the three main elements or subsystems that are necessary for any meaningful development—namely water (W), energy (E), and food (F). These key elements form what is globally agreed upon as the “WEF Nexus.” While considering them, one should think about the other key factors that influence WEF Nexus, including population’s growth, impacts of environmental changes (including climate change), moderation and adaptation regimes to climate change and climate resilience, loss of biodiversity, and sustainable nature. Together, the WEF Nexus subsystems represent a framework to ensure environmental protection that should be seen as an ethical and socioeconomic obligation. Issues, such as protection of water resources, and strategies and management tools or mechanisms for the use of water assets and agricultural innovations under the obligations of sustainable use, are investigated in this paper. Attention is paid to the relationship between water and food (WF Nexus) or water for food security in various world regions, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Central Asia countries and the Caucasus, China, Africa, and Canada. This paper also presents analyses of a great number of up-to-date publications regarding the “Nexus” perspective and its applications and limitations. This paper suggests that the Nexus’ approach, in its different concepts (WEF, WE, WF and EF), can promote sustainable development and improve the quality of life of communities, while preserving natural, human, and social capital, addressing sustainability challenges, and protecting natural resources and the environment for long-term use.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water strategies and water–food Nexus: challenges and opportunities towards sustainable development in various regions of the World

Salem¹,

Pudza

Yihdego

2022

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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Food, Energy and Water Nexus: A Brief Review of Definitions, Research, and Challenges

2020

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Vast expansion in consumption is leading to natural resource scarcity and global warming. The integrated management of natural resources, such as food, energy, food (FEW) as one of the most important aspects has been proposed as a solution to meet these challenges. The FEW nexus is a world-wide solution for simultaneously assessing the development and implementation of various approaches focusing on energy, water and food security, sufficiency. This approach is intended to foster sustainable development and improve the quality of life of communities while preserving the natural, human and social capital, address the long-term sustainability challenges and protecting all-natural resources. This paper tries to review some recent research on this topic. For this purpose, first, we describe some facts about demand growth and exponential consumption in these three areas, with emphasis on presented statistics. Then, the most critical research published in this field is reviewed, considering that it took a decade or so before that the original idea was introduced. The most important policymakers of this emerging concept, including committees and conferences, and finally significant challenges and opportunities to the implementation along with future insights, are addressed.

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Wind Power Generation Scenarios in Lebanon

Kassem

Gökçekuş²,

Çamur³

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Eng. Technol. Appl. Sci. Res.

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Renewable energy in terms of solar and wind energy can be an essential part of Lebanon's strategies to add new capacity, increase energy security, address environmental concerns, and resolve the electricity crisis. In this regard, there is an urgent need to develop road maps in order to reduce the effect of global warming and enhance sustainable technological development for generating clean power in the country. Therefore, the present paper evaluates Lebanon's wind energy generation potential as an alternative solution to supply electricity to households in various locations distributed over Lebanon. In the present study, the measured data are used to evaluate the wind energy potential in Lebanon and to find suitable locations to install wind farms in the country. Accordingly, the results demonstrated that Ain ed Dabaa is the most suitable location for the installation of a wind farm. Moreover, the study aims to develop a wind energy cost analysis techno-economic model for eight conventional wind turbines and a Barber wind turbine, which was found to be very competitive. Consequently, this study showed that the implementation of a wind turbine could provide clean, economical, and continuous production of electricity in countries that suffer from daily blackouts.

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A Multi-attribute Assessment of Electricity Supply Options in Lebanon

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

Water strategies and water–food Nexus: challenges and opportunities towards sustainable development in various regions of the World

Water strategies and water–food Nexus: challenges and opportunities towards sustainable development in various regions of the World

Food, Energy and Water Nexus: A Brief Review of Definitions, Research, and Challenges

Wind Power Generation Scenarios in Lebanon

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