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A Dynamic-Agent-Based Sustainability Assessment of Energy Systems

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Energy Systems Evaluation (Volume 1)

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Energy plays an important role in our life, constituting one of the major vital needs of human beings and affecting all aspects of the development of our life. Until recently, electricity, the most widely used form of energy, represents an attractive field of research and development to many researchers in order to compromise between the efficiency and the economy of electricity supply technologies [2]. However, nowadays, climate change and its impacts direct the vision towards including other social and environmental aspects in the evaluation of these technologies [2]. In response to the increasing demand for electricity in Egypt, actors have to compare reasonably between all potential technologies and make decisions on the suitable energy-mix that could secure a sustainable future energy in Egypt. We introduce a new approach of a dynamic temporal and spatial sustainability assessment of technologies for electricity planning with the analysis of the decision-making process of multiple actors in the energy sector. Furthermore, we investigate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different energy-mix scenarios. Our results reveal an overall energy landscape transition towards renewable technologies in order to meet the increasing demand in a secure and sustainable manner with the possibility of including coal and nuclear energy to a limited extent as a diversification tool of energy resources ensuring more security. We conclude that the complexity of the decision-making process in the planning of future energy supply necessitates the involvement of a multi-dimensional dynamic assessment of energy systems and the involvement of preferences of all stakeholders, who are affected by the decision process, in the evaluation of these systems from their perspectives.

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  1. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany

    Mostafa Shaaban

  2. Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), Institute of Geography, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 5/7, 20144, Hamburg, Germany

    Mostafa Shaaban & Jürgen Scheffran

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Shaaban, M., Scheffran, J. (2021). A Dynamic-Agent-Based Sustainability Assessment of Energy Systems. In: Ren, J. (eds) Energy Systems Evaluation (Volume 1). Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67529-5_8

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