eprintid: 14398 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/01/43/98 datestamp: 2017-03-02 09:26:11 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:35 status_changed: 2017-03-02 09:26:11 type: other metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Schinke, B. creators_name: Klawitter, J. creators_name: Döring, M. creators_name: Komendantova, N. creators_name: Irshaid, J. creators_name: Linnerooth-Bayer, J. creators_id: 1880 creators_id: 2101 creators_id: 1354 creators_orcid: 0000-0003-2568-6179 title: Electricity Planning for Sustainable Development in the MENA Region. Criteria and indicators for conducting a sustainability assessment of different electricity generation technologies in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia ispublished: pub divisions: prog_risk divisions: prog_rpv abstract: The governments of Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia currently stand at a crossroads for new electricity pathways. While the deployment of renewable energies is receiving policy support across the region, fossil fuels—especially coal and natural gas—as well as nuclear power are prominent alternatives in the countries’ development plans. This crossroads offers a unique opportunity to provide scientifically sound information on how to expand future electricity generation capacities in ways that are sensitive to the myriad of development challenges while avoiding a lock-in of the power sector in unsustainable pathways. As electricity systems are not developed in isolation from society, but in a continuous interaction with social, economic, environmental, and political dimensions, this publication aims to develop a comprehensive database for the purpose of evaluating the complex trade-offs between different electricity generation technologies and sustainable development at the national and local level in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia. By shedding light on the intersection between electricity generation technologies, sustainable development and society, the results of this publication are intended to complement previous research on energy systems—that either focused on singular aspects of sustainable development, techno–economic aspects of electricity systems or on selected electricity technologies—with the "societal element" in electricity planning. Taken up by policymakers, project developers, civil society organization and researchers, the database of this document is furthermore envisioned to help in paving the way towards an energy system that is not only reliable, affordable and accessible but also socially robust and that contributes to sustainable development in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia. date: 2017 date_type: published publisher: BICC official_url: http://menaselect.info/project_documents.html iiasa_bibref: Working Paper creators_browse_id: 161 creators_browse_id: 133 creators_browse_id: 182 full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Germany pages: 115 institution: MENA Select Project coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/other citation: Schinke, B., Klawitter, J., Döring, M., Komendantova, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-6179 , Irshaid, J. , & Linnerooth-Bayer, J. (2017). Electricity Planning for Sustainable Development in the MENA Region. Criteria and indicators for conducting a sustainability assessment of different electricity generation technologies in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia. BICC , Germany. document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14398/1/MENA_Select-Electricity_Planning_for_Sustainable_Development_in_the_MENA_Region-main.pdf