Towards energy efficiency: case of Morocco

Iysaouy, Lahcen El; Idrissi, Najiba El Amrani El; Tvaronavičienė, Manuela; Lahbabi, M. Abdelmoughit; Oumnad, Abdelmajid

doi:10.9770/ird.2019.1.3(6)

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“…Large urban centres and world's major metropolises are capable of sustaining the reliability and security of their energy supply based on the advancements in the development of their energy sectors as well as on enhancements in social efficiency and the quality of life of their dwellers (see Urbaniec, Mikul ci c, Rosen, & Dui c, 2017;Zeibote, Volkova, & Todorov, 2019;Snieska, Zykiene, & Burksaitiene, 2019;El Iysaouy, El Idrissi, Tvaronavi cien_ e, Lahbabi, & Oumnad, 2019;Tvaronavi ciene, & Slusarczyk, 2019;Al Badi, Ahshan, Hosseinzadeh, Ghorbani, & Hossain, 2020). However, all of the above requires massive investments into the novel managerial and information and communication technological solutions that would create the prerequisites for the decent level of the quality of life, ensure the focus on the socio-economic direction of the city economy, as well as the enable the smart cities to play their key functional roles.…”

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Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

Strielkowski

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Tvaronavičienė

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Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the determinants of economic efficiency and to assess the prerequisites for the energy security of smart cities. The main methods of the paper include an economic analysis of the infrastructure improvements that result in reducing the energy demand of the smart cities represented by the intelligent light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system. Smart LED streetlights are getting increasingly popular in the world's major metropolises as one of the leading components of the "smart" city. We compare the efficiency of LED street lighting used in smart cities with a commonly used lighting system based on sodium lamps. Our results demonstrate that LED street lighting system can significantly reduce the energy demand of any modern city. Moreover, we show that smart grids might help distribution systems within smart cities to better integrate intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The main research novelty of our study compared to previous studies from the literature is the estimation of net profit (NP), Net Discounted Savings (NDS), as well as the total savings (TS) using the example of an average European metropolis. Our findings show that there is a need for better management including strong networks of leaders to drive smart city policies and investments and to cover wider city areas with economically sustainable projects and plans. In addition, our findings yield that smart city projects should aim at finding solution for smart connected local energy storage systems to support more renewable energy sources on the power grids. Our results might be of a special interest for city planners, local government stakeholders, as well as urban policy makers dealing with planning and managing smart cities.

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Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

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Tvaronavičienė

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“…To this end, a special focus is put on the need to use innovations in the implementation of energy efficiency measures [22][23][24], as well as on the study of the causes and barriers that hinder energy efficiency when introducing innovative technologies [25]. At the same time, the need for development, implementation and dissemination of "energy-efficient innovations" is recognized by the experts from different countries as the most important task at different levels of economic management [26][27][28]. On the other hand, the creation of appropriate conditions is perceived as the most important area of public policy [12,29,30].…”

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Strategy Context of Decision Making for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial Energy Systems

Melnik

Ermolaev

2020

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Energy efficiency improvement in industrial companies is an essential prerequisite for the enhancement of their competitive positions in the national and global markets. Yet, the approaches currently employed in respect of the energy management do not fully utilize the innovative potential of energy technologies to achieve strategic goals. One way to further develop energy management is theoretical justification of the use of new approaches based on the suggested concept of the energy saving and energy efficiency processes’ positioning in the system of a company’s management priorities. In this article, we consider the applied use of the developed conceptual approach from the perspective of the energy saving and energy efficiency program development at the company. The main purpose of this paper is to justify the relations between energy management and strategic decision making in industrial companies. The results of the research conducted, firstly, make a certain contribution into the research of strategic multiple benefits of energy efficiency in a company; secondly, they expand understanding of the impact of energy saving and energy efficiency improvement on the achievement of operational, tactical and strategic results of the company’s activities; thirdly, they provide methodological decision support for the development of energy saving and energy efficiency programs taking into account the management and organizational barriers.

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“…The energy sector plays a key role in any country's economy in terms of maintaining its sustainability and ensuring its energy security. Moreover, it is the level of energy efficiency and reliability that defines the country's national security [1][2][3][4]. The development of the energy sector should take place at a faster pace than the development of other sectors of the economy which is explained by the need for satisfying the ever-growing demand of the economy for the electric energy.…”

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Power Market Formation for Clean Energy Production as the Prerequisite for the Country’s Energy Security

2020

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The paper analyzes the main issues of power market development for clean energy production within the broader framework of ensuring the country’s energy security. In addition, special attention is paid to the technologies aimed at reducing emissions of toxic substances and greenhouse gases by the fossil-fired power plants. Even though the future electricity markets would most likely depend on the high shares of renewable energy sources (RES) in the electricity system, energy efficiency such as the one based on the near-zero emission technologies might also play a crucial role in the transition to the carbon-free energy future. In particular, there are the oxy-fuel combustion technologies that might help to reduce the proportion of unburned fuel and increase the efficiency of the power plant while reducing the emissions of flue gases. Our paper focuses on the role and the place of the near-zero emission technologies in the production of clean energy. We applied economic and mathematical models for assessing the prospects for applying oxy-fuel combustion technology in thermal power plants, taking into account the system of emission quotas and changes in the fuel cost. Our results demonstrate that at the current fuel prices, it is advisable to use economical combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT). At the same time, when quotas for greenhouse gas emissions are introduced and fuel costs increase by 1.3 times, it becomes economically feasible to use the oxy-fuel combustion technology which possesses significant economic advantages over CCGT with respect to the capture and storage of greenhouse gases.

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Towards energy efficiency: case of Morocco

Cited by 42 publications

References 23 publications

Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

Economic efficiency and energy security of smart cities

Strategy Context of Decision Making for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial Energy Systems

Power Market Formation for Clean Energy Production as the Prerequisite for the Country’s Energy Security

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