Assessing the Implementation of Renewable Energy Policy within the UAE by Adopting the Australian ‘Solar Town’ Program

Authors

  • Sundus Shareef British University in Dubai, Dubai
  • Hasim Altan Final International University, Kyrenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/fce.75

Keywords:

Renewable Energy, Implementing PV, Solar Town, Cost Benefit Analysis, UAE

Abstract

The environmental policies and the use of renewable energy are at the highest priority of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) plans and strategies, and the implementation of clean energy in the country is one of the recent environmental practices that would require more studies and investigation. Conducting this study will offer some valuable analyses and results that could be taking into consideration in the implementation of renewable and solar energy programs further to enacting the environmental legislations and policies to achieve the UAE’s target of reducing CO2 emissions 70% by 2050. This study aims to explore the capability of implementing the solar panel (PV) system on a large scale by adopting the ‘Solar Town’ program and policies developed by some of the leading countries such as Germany and Australia. Further to this, Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) was conducted to explore the benefit and the payback period of implementing this program. By calculating the CBA for each property within the community, it has been found that the PV energy system could cover an apartment’s electricity consumption with a 1.1 kW surplus, while it can cover only 60% of a villa’s electricity consumption.

Author Biography

Hasim Altan, Final International University, Kyrenia

Professor and Dean of Faculty of Architecture & Fine Arts at Final International University in Cyprus. He is a Chartered Architect (RIBA) and a Chartered Engineer (CIBSE) with 20 years of academic and practice experience in the field of Architectural Engineering and Sustainable Design of the Built Environment in UK, Europe and the Middle East. As well as having supervised 16 successful PhD students, Prof. Dr. Altan has published over 200-refereed journal and conference papers in related fields.

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Published

2019-11-15

Issue

Vol. 5 (2019)

Section

Technical Articles

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