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Efficient Industrial Energy Use: The First Step in Transitioning Saudi Arabia...
Executive Summary: External observers worry about whether Saudi domestic consumption of oil will crowd out exports. This is based on simple extrapolations which suggest... -
Gasoline Demand, Pricing Policy and Social Welfare in Saudi Arabia
About the Project KAPSARC’s projects on energy demand model how factors such as income, prices and energy efficiency influence energy demand in different countries, with a... -
Economic & Environmental Benefits of Improving UAE Building Stock Energy Effi...
About the Project Increasing energy productivity holds some of the greatest possibilities for enhancing the welfare countries get out of their energy systems. It also recasts... -
Estimating the Learning Curve of Solar PV Balance-of-Systems for Over 20 Coun...
About the Project Although the costs of solar modules have fallen precipitously and have, thus far, followed an 80% learning curve, balance-of-system (BOS) costs have not... -
The Political Feasibility of Policy Options for the UAE’s Energy Transition
About the Project This paper – prepared in collaboration with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology – applies a... -
Curbing Carbon Emission: Is a Carbon Tax the Most Efficient Levy
About the Project The objective of this research is to understand how different policy tools could expedite the transition toward a low-carbon economy in a cost-effective... -
Understanding Long-Term Consumer Demand for Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
About the Project Promoting adoption of energy-efficient vehicles has become a key policy imperative in both developed and developing countries. Understanding the impact of... -
Growth, Investment and the Low-Carbon Transition: A View From Saudi Arabia
About the Project This paper draws on KAPSARC’s energy productivity work focused on how shifting to a growth model based around higher energy productivity can benefit Saudi... -
Energy Productivity: Evaluating Large-Scale Building Energy Efficiency Progra...
About the Project Increasing energy productivity holds some of the greatest possibilities for enhancing the welfare countries get out of their energy systems. It also recasts... -
Lowering Saudi Arabia’s fuel consumption and energy system costs without incr...
Summary: Saudi Arabia aims to reduce the growth of its energy demand. This paper outlines an approach that could help the country to reduce substantively its current fuel... -
Modeling Residential Electricity Demand in the GCC
About the Project This project attempts to model econometrically residential electricity demand for the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,... -
Policy Options for Reducing Water for Agriculture in Saudi Arabia
Key Points: Saudi Arabia relies almost exclusively on aquifers and desalination to provide its water. Roughly 87 percent of these water extractions are used for agriculture,... -
LNG for Africa
About the Project KAPSARC is analyzing the shifting dynamics of the global gas markets, which have turned upside down during the past five years. North America has emerged as a... -
Managing Oil Revenue Stabilization Funds: A Framework for Developing Policies
About the Project Strategies can be developed to mitigate the effects of oil price shocks on the Kingdom’s economy. Oil stabilization funds provide short-run protection against... -
Towards More Pragmatic Global Climate Goals and Policies
About the Project This study examines potentially efficient global decarbonisation pathways that incorporate mitigation and adaptation to achieve more cost-effective outcomes.... -
Is Unbundling Electricity Services the Way Forward for the Power Sector?
About the Project The Utilities of the Future project focuses on how new technologies in DERs are transforming customer/provider relationships. Advances in distributed... -
Economic Stability in the GCC Countries
About the Project The project explores alternative methods of measuring economic diversification and investigating its associated impacts on the Saudi Arabian economy and other... -
Third-Party Access to Regasification Terminals: Adapting to the LNG Markets’ ...
About the Project KAPSARC is analyzing the shifting dynamics of the global gas markets. Global gas markets have turned upside down during the past five years: North America has... -
Restructuring Saudi Arabia’s Power Generation Sector: Model-Based Insights
About the Project KAPSARC is developing the KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB), an open source software platform, to support modeling and analysis of collective... -
Will Current Electric Vehicle Policy Lead to Cost-Effective Electrification?
About the Project After decades of development and false starts, electric vehicles have now become commercial. However, they still rely on strong policy support for their...