Assessment of energy security in MedRing countries and regional trends towards renewable energy deployment

Chentouf, Mohammed; Allouch, Mohamed

doi:10.1063/1.5001825

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“…However, the country is the largest energy importer in North Africa and is still extremely dependent on conventional energies with a recent import rate that reaches 96% (Amegroud 2015). A recent study revealed that Morocco has the lowest Energy Security Index (ESI) among the MedRing countries (-0.038) (Chentouf and Allouch 2017). Hence, the restructuring of the energy sector in Morocco may contribute to alleviating this critical situation by reducing its reliance on imported fossil fuels while capitalizing more in the local energy sources.…”

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Land suitability analysis for solar farms exploitation using the GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) – a case study of Morocco

Taoufik¹,

Meriem²,

Fekri³

2021

Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal

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Given Morocco's geographical position and climatic conditions, solar energy will supply a large portion of the country's energy demand. In this paper, the suitability of Moroccan lands for hosting Solar Power Plants was studied using the combination of the Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Analytical Hierarchy Method (AHP). The multi-criteria decision framework integrates technical, socio-economic and environmental constraints. For this purpose, a GIS database was created using layers from various sources. In addition, since the potential of Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI) is the most relevant criterion for the selection of solar farms, a high-quality solar satellite map with a spatial resolution of 0.27 km was used, covering a period from 1994 to 2018. Obtained results show a great potential for solar energy development in Morocco, represented by the availability of 90% of areas. In fact, the resulting map was classified into 6 different classes, namely: Very high suitability, High suitability, Moderate suitability, Low suitability, Very low suitability and Exclusion areas, which 53.88%, 24.08%, 0.15%, 0%, 0% and 21.89% are respectively the percentages of their area occupation. According to the performed investigations, the most significant criteria that should be considered include: The Global Horizontal Irradiation, Slope, Temperature and Slope orientation. The obtained map was then compared to the existing solar farms, and show that all the existing projects are located within areas classified as highly suitable.

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Land suitability analysis for solar farms exploitation using the GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) – a case study of Morocco

Taoufik¹,

Meriem²,

Fekri³

2021

Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal

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“…Simultaneously, the country is witnessing a structural reform of its electricity sector driven by different factors including geopolitical conflicts and depletion of conventional fuels, security of energy supply, energy dependency and diversification, and carbon intensity of the energy mix. 40 The result was the implementation of different policies covering liberalization of the electricity sector, expansion of local power grid, and regional exchange with neighboring countries, creation of a carbon market and commitment to reduce GHG emissions from energy activities, implementation of legal and institutional reforms and finally the national energy strategy. 41 The latter aims to ensure an installed capacity of 42% in 2020 and 52% from RES in 2030 for producing electricity.…”

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Assessment of renewable energy transition in Moroccan electricity sector using a system dynamics approach

Chentouf¹,

Allouch²

2020

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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Morocco is one of the major importers of conventional fuels in the MENA region. In fact, ensuring energy security in the western kingdom is placing a heavy burden on economic balances, while generating many environmental impacts and social discrepancies. The local government has been striving to reduce its GHG emissions coming mainly from activities related to the field of energy harvesting. The current research work aims to evaluate technical, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the ongoing transition toward renewable energy (RE) deployment in Morocco. We used the system dynamics approach in order to study different interactions of the components of the Moroccan electricity sector and their behaviors on this complex system under various scenarios. The results showed that 35 MtCO 2 of avoided emissions can be ensured up to 2030 if renewable installed capacity reaches 15.72 GW by the same year. On the other hand, demand is estimated to be reduced by almost 30 TWh if robust measures were taken turning the country into an electricity exporter of up to 8.67 TWh by 2030. Finally, while research and development activities are expected to decrease RE plants construction costs by almost 700 million USD, nearly 448.986 renewable jobs can be created by 2030.

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“…He concluded that overall energy security level has deteriorated over the past 20 years in all countries, although he identifies three groups of countries in terms of energy security level deterioration. Chentouf and Allouch (2017) assess the energy security level for the countries of the Mediterranean region. They found a great dependence of these countries (except Libya, Algeria and Egypt) on imported energy resources despite considerable prospects for the region's solar energy.…”

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Assessment of the Region’s Energy Security Level in the Process of Formation of the Common European Energy Space

Pysar

2019

IJEEP

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Creation of a single European energy space is impossible without proper and rapid assessment of the level of energy supply of the country. Depending on the specifics of regional development, indicators for assessing the level of energy security are different. Therefore, the study of the methodology for assessing the current state of the resource supply of the multifaceted energy system of the country is an important and topical task of the country's management. The proposed methodology for an integrated assessment of the economic security level is characterized by the use of the multiplicative form of the integrated index and contains a number of additional recent indices; simultaneous normalization of indices and their threshold values by a common normalizing function; substantiation of the threshold value vector; as well as by a formalized definition of weighting factors, which allows to compare the dynamics of the integrated index with integrated threshold values on one scale, i.e., correctly identify the state of economic security. The theoretical approaches to the integrated assessment of the country's energy security level have been analyzed and summarized and an evaluation methodology has been proposed that differs from the previous ones in that it allows to assess in detail the energy security level in the regional context. The paper describes the results of developing a methodology for assessing Ukraine's energy security based on an indicative approach. The methodology for predicting threats to the country's energy security has been provided. The numerical values and data sources of Ukraine's energy security indices have been presented.

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Assessment of energy security in MedRing countries and regional trends towards renewable energy deployment

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Land suitability analysis for solar farms exploitation using the GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) – a case study of Morocco

Land suitability analysis for solar farms exploitation using the GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) – a case study of Morocco

Assessment of renewable energy transition in Moroccan electricity sector using a system dynamics approach

Assessment of the Region’s Energy Security Level in the Process of Formation of the Common European Energy Space

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