Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates is designed to be the first modern city powered solely by renewable energy. However, the stochastic nature of renewable energy generators has remained a major challenge in their sole and largescale deployment. Traditional approaches couple large-scale storage systems to renewable generators to mitigate the intermittency in their supply pattern. More recen...

Island electricity systems tend to rely heavily on the use of fossil fuels for the everyday supply of customer needs, so there are both significant economic and environmental benefits from the decarbonisation of these systems. One such key global environmental benefit is the anticipated reduction in CO2 emissions and its associated effects on climate change. In recognition, many islands are alr...

Non-renewable and renewable resources are imperfect substitutes due to technical and geographical constraints. What is the role of imperfect substitution on the optimal transition path to the clean technologies? We address this question by characterizing the optimal growth path and resource use of an economy. We show that the economy initially starts with using the non-renewable and renewable r...

This study highlights the energy problem and the possible savings that can be achieved through the use of renewable energy technologies. Also, this study clarifies the background of the study, highlights the potential energy saving that could be achieved through use of renewable energy technologies and describes the objectives, approach and scope of the study. The move towards a decarbonised wo...