The Story of NEOM City: Opportunities and Challenges

Farag, Alshimaa A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77875-4_3

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“…The KSA started to concentrate on renewable energy, such as solar energy, to minimize the risk of rising electricity prices when energy subsidies are cut [71]. In October 2018, the government of the KSA issued installation approval for smallscale solar systems to encourage the implementation of solar energy, expecting to invest $500 billion in renewable energy by 2030 [71], [72]. In 2018, the KSA began constructing a 300 MW solar energy project (Sakaka project) and announced a 400 MW wind energy project (Dumat Al Jandal project)both currently ongoingin the northwest, with the plan to construct "Neom City," an urban area of 26,500 km2 that will be fully powered by renewable energy [71], [72].…”

Section: B Gcc Renewable Energy Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

GCC Countries’ Renewable Energy Penetration and the Progress of Their Energy Sector Projects

Alharbi

Csala

2020

IEEE Access

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The member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are reliant on fossil fuels to generate electricity. Fossil fuels also represent the main source of economic income in the region. Climate change is closely associated with the use of fossil fuels, and it has become the main motivation driving the GCC countries to search for alternative solutions, such as renewable energy technologies, to eliminate their reliance on fossil fuels and the climate burden attached. The GCC countries have all adopted plans for economic development and diversification to be implemented over two decades. Such plans are strengthened by a framework for long-term planning, which includes a strategic commitment to pursue the development process in a sustainable manner. This research provides a comprehensive review and strict follow-up to shed light on the renewable energy projects implemented in the GCC region and critically discusses future prospects. The projects foreshadow the GCC countries' ability to comply with the future requirements and to spearhead the renewable energy transition towards a more sustainable and equitable future. The main findings of this research reveal that the GCC countries have achieved significant progress in the field of renewable energy deployment. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are at the top of the list for global renewable energy projects, while Kuwait and Oman have also announced the progress of their projects and have honored their pledges. We find that Bahrain and Qatar need to exercise more transparency in regard to disclosing information about the developments of their renewable energy projects. Finally, although several promising renewable energy projects are underway or have been announced in the region, their completion should be accelerated, and more projects must be implemented to fully meet the decarbonization targets and climate constraints.

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Section: B Gcc Renewable Energy Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

GCC Countries’ Renewable Energy Penetration and the Progress of Their Energy Sector Projects

Alharbi

Csala

2020

IEEE Access

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“…As the energy consumption is proportional to the displacement, we adopt the formula in Equation (7). It measures the energy depleted by a moving device, where H e is the energy required to move one meter (J/m) and d is the displacement (m).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It brings more control, precisions, early alerts, monitoring and tracking the environment. This is reflected in many projects such as Array of Things (AoT) [5], NEOM City [6,7], Google's Loon [8], etc. Google's Loon project aims to create an aerial wireless network formed by nodes such as satellites, balloons, drones, or fixed-wing aircraft.…”

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MCCM: An Approach for Connectivity and Coverage Maximization

Ghaddar¹,

Hatoum²,

Fadlallah³

et al. 2020

Future Internet

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The internet of Things (IoT) has attracted significant attention in many applications in both academic and industrial areas. In IoT, each object can have the capabilities of sensing, identifying, networking and processing to communicate with ubiquitous objects and services. Often this paradigm (IoT) using Wireless Sensor Networks must cover large area of interest (AoI) with huge number of devices. As these devices might be battery powered and randomly deployed, their long-term availability and connectivity for area coverage is very important, in particular in harsh environments. Moreover, a poor distribution of devices may lead to coverage holes and degradation to the quality of service. In this paper, we propose an approach for self-organization and coverage maximization. We present a distributed algorithm for “Maintaining Connectivity and Coverage Maximization” called M C C M . The algorithm operates on different movable devices in homogeneous and heterogeneous distribution. It does not require high computational complexity. The main goal is to keep the movement of devices as minimal as possible to save energy. Another goal is to reduce the overlapping areas covered by different devices to increase the coverage while maintaining connectivity. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve higher coverage and lower nodes’ movement over existing algorithms in the state of the art.

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“…Could a conjunction of humans and their managed computation-mechanical agencies (robots) revolutionize this unmistakably blighted binational New World Region? For Saudi Arabians, the toponym "NEOM" was constructed from two words: Greek "neo" (new) and the Arabic word "Mostaqbal" (future) [19][20]; NEOM identifies an abuilding new Middle East city (280 17' 17" North latitude by 340 50' 42" East longitude) where robots function to produce desalinated water, provide adequate installation security and efficient time-tabled industrial and civic logistics, all powered by reliable renewable energy resources and backed-up by out-of-Region high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line sources of electricity input. If the USA possessed a practically functional nationwide electrical grid, then solar power emanating from the desert Southwest could meet peak electricity demand in the early-evening Northeast and then support a similar demand peak in the West a few hours later; new HVDC transmissions lines could follow existing Federal Government-granted trans-continental railroad rights-of-way with very little political or commercial contestation.…”

Section: Optimizing Northern Mexico-southern California's Freshwater mentioning

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Meteorological Macro-Imagineering: A Re-plumbed Freshwater Supply System for the USA’s Southwest? (Macro-Imagenharia Meteorológica: Um Sistema de Abastecimento de Água Doce para o Sudoeste dos EUA?)

Cathcart¹

2019

CALIBRE

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The Story of NEOM City: Opportunities and Challenges

Cited by 56 publications

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GCC Countries’ Renewable Energy Penetration and the Progress of Their Energy Sector Projects

GCC Countries’ Renewable Energy Penetration and the Progress of Their Energy Sector Projects

MCCM: An Approach for Connectivity and Coverage Maximization

Meteorological Macro-Imagineering: A Re-plumbed Freshwater Supply System for the USA’s Southwest? (Macro-Imagenharia Meteorológica: Um Sistema de Abastecimento de Água Doce para o Sudoeste dos EUA?)

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