Modelling for power generation sector in Developing Countries: Case of Egypt

Rady, Yassin Yehia; Rocco, Matteo Vincenzo; Serag-Eldin, M. A.; Colombo, Emanuela

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.089

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“…[85]. This strong dependence on fossil fuels is mainly due to the strong subsidies on fossil energy utilities imposed so far, which caused a vulnerability of the country to socio-economic events, resulting in low levels of reliability and security of supply [86]. The natural decline of the deposits due to their continued use in the generation process, as well as the aging of the infrastructure and the inadequate generation and transmission capacity are some of the features of the country's energy sector [87].…”

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An AHP-SWOT-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Achieving a Cross-Border RES Cooperation

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The emerging need to tackle climate change and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions has led to the consolidation of interest in renewable energy sources (RES) setting specific targets in the European area. To achieve the ambitious targets set, Member States are given the opportunity to cooperate with one or more of their developing neighboring countries. The aim of this paper is to develop a methodological framework based on the combination of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) methods for adopting the most appropriate strategic plan, in order to establish a successful energy cooperation that will create beneficial conditions for all the involved parties. The results could be important in facilitating decision makers to assess the role and design of this cooperation mechanism. Key insights will also emerge with regards to opportunities for energy strategy cooperation between Europe and its neighboring countries.

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Section: Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

An AHP-SWOT-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Achieving a Cross-Border RES Cooperation

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“…Taking into account a range of assumptions with regards to techno-economic characteristics of technologies, fuel prices, emission limits and other system constraints, the model identifies a cost-optimal technology and energy mix. OSeMOSYS has been used in several applications of national, regional and global focus (Löffler et al, 2017;Pinto, de Moura et al, 2017;Gardumi et al, 2018;Niet et al, 2018;Rady et al, 2018;Sridharan et al, 2019), while its maturity and technical capability for serious use to support energy planning have been recognized in a study comparing 31 open source energy system tools (Groissböck, 2019).…”

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The Effect of Electric Vehicle Deployment on Renewable Electricity Generation in an Isolated Grid System: The Case Study of Cyprus

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Decarbonisation of national economies to mitigate climate change requires transformation of the entire energy system. Investments in renewable energy technologies in the electricity supply system are increasing, but substantial effort is called for in other sectors, such as transport. While European Union member states have submitted their integrated National Energy and Climate Plans, this paper focuses on partial electrification of the transport sector as a measure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the isolated grid system of Cyprus in a cost-effective manner. The present work assesses the impact of electric vehicle deployment on the share of renewable electricity generation, electricity costs and carbon dioxide emissions. Quantification of these aspects is provided with an outlook until 2035. A cost-optimisation model (OSeMOSYS) is used that takes into account the electricity supply, road transport, and heating and cooling sectors. Smart charging option is also evaluated as a possibility.

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“…However, with respect to the countries contributed to that growth, China was the largest contributor to renewable energy growth (0.8 EJ), followed by the US (0.3 EJ) and Japan (0.2 EJ) [4]. Typically, Egypt is one of the countries with substantial opportunities in renewable energy generation [12][13][14][15][16]. Despite the conspicuous growth rate in renewable energy generation (in terawatt-hours TWh) that has been reported in Egypt from (3.5 TWh) in 2018 to (6.5 TWh) in 2019, oil and gas are still its main energy sources.…”

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Improving the Performance of Vertical Wind Turbine Using Gears and Timing Belt Mechanism to Reorient the Turbine's Blades

Khader

2020

ERJ. Engineering Research Journal

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Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) are steadily continued to gain more attention from both academia and governments as they can provide promising solutions for harnessing wind energy in locations with modest wind speeds as well as varying wind directions. In spite of all of the flexibility in working conditions as well as low installation costs and ease of maintenance associated with the VAWTs, their lower efficiency levels significantly obstruct their competiveness in the wind energy field. Therefore, enhancing the performance of such turbines is very critical in exploiting their full potential. Accordingly, this paper proposed a mechanical mechanism which is mainly consists of gears and timing belt that are specially designed to effectively enable the turbine blades to instantaneously reorient themselves to face the wind direction. Also, the proposed turbine is enclosed in a specially designed cage with a rear blade attached to it. This rear blade, as affected by the wind, is responsible for making the cage redirect itself such that its inlet is facing the wind direction. To test the validity of the introduced concept, a VAWT prototype with the proposed mechanism has been manufactured and tested using wind tunnel. The test results demonstrated the self-oriented capability of new design that guaranteed maintaining a continuous perpendicular position between the affecting wind direction and the blade surface. The experimental results also confirmed the expected efficiency improvements and the assessed natural theoretically frequencies ensured that the developed turbine can safely rotate with considerably high angular speeds with no resonance risks.

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Modelling for power generation sector in Developing Countries: Case of Egypt

Cited by 53 publications

References 14 publications

An AHP-SWOT-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Achieving a Cross-Border RES Cooperation

An AHP-SWOT-Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Achieving a Cross-Border RES Cooperation

The Effect of Electric Vehicle Deployment on Renewable Electricity Generation in an Isolated Grid System: The Case Study of Cyprus

Improving the Performance of Vertical Wind Turbine Using Gears and Timing Belt Mechanism to Reorient the Turbine's Blades

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