Modeling Renewable Energy Readiness: The UAE Context
Modeling technology policy is becoming an increasingly important capability to steer states and societies toward sustainability. This paper presents a simulation-modeling approach to evaluate renewable energy readiness, that is, the ability to develop renewable energy, taking into account critical e...
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| author | Choucri, Nazli Goldsmith, Daniel Mezher, Toufic |
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| description | Modeling technology policy is becoming an increasingly important capability to steer states and societies toward sustainability. This paper presents a simulation-modeling approach to evaluate renewable energy readiness, that is, the ability to develop renewable energy, taking into account critical ecological, economic, governance, and institutional factors that generally shape energy policy. While the dynamics underlying shifts towards renewable energy are generic, we focus on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a counter-intuitive case. The UAE is a major oil rich and oil exporting country, with large untapped reserves. Yet it has made a policy decision to develop sources of renewable energy. The absence of basic institutional, managerial, and infrastructure requirements creates major barriers that must be surmounted if this policy is to be effectively pursued. For these and other reasons, the UAE serves as a "hard test" for the potentials of renewable energy and can eventually be used as a model for other oil exporting countries. The UAE has already made strides along a trajectory in trial and error ways. As such, it helps demonstrate in theory and practice the readiness for renewable energy-that can help articulate effective policy trajectories. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/712642022-05-05T16:00:26Z Modeling Renewable Energy Readiness: The UAE Context Choucri, Nazli Goldsmith, Daniel Mezher, Toufic Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Choucri, Nazli Nazli, Choucri Goldsmith, Daniel Modeling technology policy is becoming an increasingly important capability to steer states and societies toward sustainability. This paper presents a simulation-modeling approach to evaluate renewable energy readiness, that is, the ability to develop renewable energy, taking into account critical ecological, economic, governance, and institutional factors that generally shape energy policy. While the dynamics underlying shifts towards renewable energy are generic, we focus on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a counter-intuitive case. The UAE is a major oil rich and oil exporting country, with large untapped reserves. Yet it has made a policy decision to develop sources of renewable energy. The absence of basic institutional, managerial, and infrastructure requirements creates major barriers that must be surmounted if this policy is to be effectively pursued. For these and other reasons, the UAE serves as a "hard test" for the potentials of renewable energy and can eventually be used as a model for other oil exporting countries. The UAE has already made strides along a trajectory in trial and error ways. As such, it helps demonstrate in theory and practice the readiness for renewable energy-that can help articulate effective policy trajectories. 2012-06-29T16:51:40Z 2012-06-29T16:51:40Z 2011-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7695-4410-6 1524-4547 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71264 Choucri, Nazli, Daniel Goldsmith, and Toufic Mezher. “Modeling Renewable Energy Readiness: The UAE Context.” IEEE, 2011. 211-216. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0760-7927 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6756-7795 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.35 Proceedings of the 2011 20th IEEE International Workshop On Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure For Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Choucri via admin assistant |
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| title_short | Modeling Renewable Energy Readiness: The UAE Context |
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