Main
25 July 2019
Solar energy export prospects shed light on a sustainable future for Saudi Arabia
Savannah Mandel
A comprehensive analysis of solar energy export candidates suggests that Pakistan, India, and Turkey might soon share a renewable relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia's energy consumption currently relies on crude oil and other fossil fuels. The country is also the world's largest exporter of oil, possessing around 18 percent of the global proven petroleum reserves. Although fossil fuels currently account for 70 percent of the Kingdom's export earnings, Experts have also identified solar power as a sustainable and profitable alternative energy export.
Zubair et al. Compare the solar energy output of Saudi Arabia with potential solar energy customers across Europe and Asia. They Simulated a 4 GW grid connected to a solar energy plant in the capital of each country and assumed a discounted sale price of half the current electricity purchase price for local residential customers.
The authors identified potential based on load curve and time of solar energy generation. Taking Into Account Reputation: Saudi Arabia's Location In Relation To Potential or Customers, The Authors Concluded That color: such Solar Exports Could Reach Countries Facing Energy Shortages During Peak Times Of The Day, And Identified Pakistan, India, and Turkey as the countries that could benefit the most from these exports.
The Pakistani city of Karachi was specifically identified as a megacity severely affected by power shortage. The authors said that collaboration between Saudi Arabia and the Karachi Electric Company has been proposed as the next stage in this research.
“Solar energy, educating the youth, and the vast solar potential of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can be used to develop solar farms for exports to not only Karachi but also to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and other Arab countries in the east to help cover their energy load peaks after sunset. “ Zubair said.
Source: “Solar energy export prospects of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” by Muhammad Zubair, Ahmed Bilal Awan, RP Praveen, and Muhammad Abdulbaseer, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2019).
The article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098016 .
Published by AIP Publishing (https://publishing.aip.org/authors/rights-and-permissions).
AIP Scilight. 2019, 300011-1; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5120514
© Published by AIP Publishing
الملفات المرفقة
- Energy Export from KSA to SA (Energy Export.pptx - B)
- Artificial Muscles (AMM Artificial muscle.pdf - B)
- S H & E (1 SH & E.pptx - B)
- Sensors and Transducers (Transducer & Sensors.pdf - B)
- Web tension control of multispan roll-to-roll system by artificial neural networks for printed electronics (Web Tension Control of Multispan Roll to Roll System by Artifici - B)
- NPC Based Design Optimization for a Net Zero Office Building in Hot Climates with PV Panels as Shading Device (NPC Based Design Optimization for a Net Zero Office Building in - B)
- Design and Fabrication of a Programmable 5-DOF Autonomous Robotic Arm (Design and Fabrication of a Programmable 5-DOF Autonomous Roboti - B)
- Fuzzy decoupling to reduce propagation of tension disturbances in roll-to-roll system (Fuzzy decoupling to reduce propagation of tension disturbances i - B)
- Flexible large area organic light emitting diode fabricated by electrohydrodynamics atomization technique (Flexible large area organic light emitting diode fabricated by e - B)
- Design Fabrication & Real Time Vision Based Control of Gaming Board (Design Fabrication & Real Time Vision Based Control of Gaming Bo - B)
- Solar energy export prospects shed light on a sustainable future for Saudi Arabia (Solar energy export prospects shed light on a sustainable future - B)
- Comparative Analysis of Ground-Mounted vs. Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Optimized for Interrow Distance between Parallel Arrays (Comparative Analysis of Ground-Mounted vs. Rooftop Photovoltaic - B)
- Characterization of flexible temperature sensor fabricated through drop-on-demand electrohydrodynamics patterning (Characterization of flexible temperature sensor fabricated throu - B)
- Solar Energy Resource Analysis and Evaluation of Photovoltaic System Performance in Various Regions of Saudi Arabia (Solar Energy Resource Analysis and Evaluation of Photovoltaic Sy - B)
- An Evolution Strategy Based Autonomous Algorithm for Roll-to-roll Web Control System (An Evolution Strategy Based Autonomous Algorithm for Roll-to-rol - B)
- Conductivity enhancement of PEDOTPSS thin film using roll to plate technique and its characterization as a schottky diode (Conductivity enhancement of PEDOTPSS thin film using roll to pla - B)
- Improvement of solution based conjugate polymer organic light emitting diode by ZnO–graphene quantum dots (Improvement of solution based conjugate polymer organic light em - B)
- Land Mine Detecting Robot Capable of Path Planning (Land Mine Detecting Robot Capable of Path Planning Journal.pdf - B)
- Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Using Solution Processable Conjugated Polymer (Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Light Emitting Diode - B)
- Web Tension Regulation of Multispan Roll to Roll system using integrated active dancer and load cells for printed electronics applications (Web Tension Regulation of Multispan Roll to Roll system using in - B)