RE-mapping the UAE’s energy transition: An economy-wide assessment of renewable energy options and their policy implications

Sgouridis, Sgouris; Abdullah, Ayu; Griffiths, Steve; Saygin, Deǧer; Wagner, Nicholas; Gielen, Dolf; Reinisch, Hannes; McQueen, Dane

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.05.039

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“…Renewable energy in the GCC has additionally been an ongoing topic of academic interest with many authors considering policies that could stimulate renewables adoption [3,41,[49][50][51][52][53][54] and further developing economic top-down and technological bottomup models to simulate policy impacts [55][56][57][58][59]. These studies show that while the current deployment of renewable energy in the GCC is very minimal, the opportunity is large, particularly for solar energy.…”

Section: Gcc Motivations Plans and Policies For Renewable Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The reason for DEWA committing to this more expensive technology is that the energy storage provided will be essential to achieving the system level balancing that will be necessary for intermittent solar PV to play a major role in the Dubai's plan is to have renewables providing 25% of its electricity by 2030 and 75% by 2050 [88]. Prior studies have indicated the economic value of CSP with thermal energy storage in UAE and North African electricity systems when substantial amounts of renewable energy [56,92,93]. However, the definition of ''substantial'' is context dependent as supply and demand strategies can be implemented to support substantial deployment of intermittent renewables, including storage, curtailment, geographic dispersion and load shaping [94].…”

Section: Uae Renewable Energy Auction Case Study Whilementioning

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“…Solar water heating (SWH) requires particular consideration since it receives much less attention than solar power but is in fact a very low cost and effective means of improving energy performance in the buildings sector. In Dubai, installation of solar water heaters is required in all new villas and labor accommodations to provide 75% of domestic hot water requirements [56,98]. Given the cost effectiveness of SWH, implementation of such SWH policy and regulation would be sensible throughout the GCC in the very near term.…”

Section: Solar Thermal In the Buildings Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Renewable energy policy trends and recommendations for GCC countries

Griffiths

2017

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Policies to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies have been widely established for power generation, heating, cooling, and transportation. However, as renewable energy technologies have become increasingly cost-competitive and more widely deployed, policymakers have begun to focus their attention on the adaption of existing policies to reflect the rapidly changing economics of these technologies and the impacts they have may have on the energy systems in which they are deployed. Optimal renewable energy policies moving forward must, therefore, be context specific and tailored to the unique political, economic and social circumstances of the regional, national or sub-national energy systems in which they are to be applied. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a region where each member country has stated ambitions and targets for renewable energy but deployment to date has been minimal. Therefore, GCC ambitions must be translated into actions via defined policies and regulations that reflect regional context, and thus have the highest likelihood of achieving success. This paper investigates current trends in renewable energy policy with the aim of identifying those that will be the most effective and feasible to catalyze renewable energy in GCC countries. The findings show that utility-scale renewable energy auctions are a primary mode of stimulating renewable energy deployment internationally and this mechanism is optimally aligned with catalyzing renewable energy deployment in the GCC countries. However, further evolution of regionally tailored renewable energy policy will be required as auction mechanisms gain traction and renewable energy becomes increasingly prominent.

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Section: Gcc Motivations Plans and Policies For Renewable Energymentioning

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“…According to Sgouridis et al . , renewable energy accounted for <0.1% of UAE's total energy consumption and there was no renewable energy base in UAE before 2008. Therefore, the government of UAE targeted to increase the share of renewable energy in total energy consumption and aimed to generate 24% of the total energy demand from renewable sources by 2021 .…”

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Neurogenetic modeling of energy demand in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar

Rahman

Khondaker

Hossain

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Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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Socio‐economic variables including gross domestic product, population, and energy and electricity production are used in modeling and forecasting national energy demands of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. The proposed model features: (i) the nonlinear component of energy demand (removal of linear trend), (ii) application of double exponential smoothing method for input data projection, and (iii) genetic algorithm‐based artificial neural network (ANN) models. The proposed neuro‐genetic model performed very well for the three selected countries. The coefficient of determination and Willmott's index of agreement for the training and testing dataset are quite high whereas the mean absolute error, mean absolute percentage error and root mean squared error are quite low. The acceptable agreements between the observed energy consumption and the model predictions revealed its viability for the study of energy demand in the three selected member states of the energy exporting regional alliance Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 36: 1208–1216, 2017

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“…In the UAE, the vast majority of the electricity delivered to the building sector is generated from natural gas power plants. According to Sgouridis et al [34] an average of 8.28 MJ of fossil primary energy is needed for 1 kWh of residential electricity delivered. Consequently, the primary energy intensity of the three modeled buildings are estimated at 2.13 GJ/m 2 /year, 1.16 GJ/m 2 /year, and 3.01 GJ/m 2 /year, respectively.…”

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Impact of Human Actions on Building Energy Performance: A Case Study in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Amoodi

Azar

2018

Sustainability

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There is a growing interest in the literature to understand how actions taken by occupants and facility managers can affect building performance. However, user-centric building energy research: (1) remains understudied compared to design-focused research efforts; (2) overlooks combined effects or uncertainty in multiple parameters; and (3) typically does not cover particular types of buildings (e.g., educational facilities), nor buildings subject to extreme weather conditions. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by proposing a comprehensive energy modeling and analysis framework to quantify the impact of human action on building energy consumption. The framework applies various data analysis methods such as differential, fractional factorial, and Monte Carlo analysis methods, in order to capture potential combined or synergetic effects of human actions on building performance. A case study is then presented on typical educational buildings located in the extreme hot climate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Results indicate that uncertainty in human actions can lead up to a ±25% variation from average energy consumption levels, confirming the significant role that people have in making their built environment more efficient and sustainable.

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RE-mapping the UAE’s energy transition: An economy-wide assessment of renewable energy options and their policy implications

Cited by 65 publications

References 27 publications

Renewable energy policy trends and recommendations for GCC countries

Renewable energy policy trends and recommendations for GCC countries

Neurogenetic modeling of energy demand in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar

Impact of Human Actions on Building Energy Performance: A Case Study in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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