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Fateh was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit. Fateh has also held various positions at the French Scientific and Technical Center for Building and led multiple collaborative projects for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the European Commission. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics. He has published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, energy poverty, renewables, and energy policy. He received a habilitation for supervising doctoral research from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.S. in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral University, and an engineering degree in statistics. His work has been published in journals including Ecological Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Economic Surveys, Energy Policy, and Environmental Management
Publications
01 September 2024
Residential Electricity Consumption and Rebound Effects in Saudi Arabia: Insights into Bridging the Energy Efficiency GapThe rebound effect refers to the phenomenon where energy efficiency improvements lead to increased energy consumption, offsetting some of the expected energy savings. This article aims to estimate the direct rebound effect of residential electricity consumption in Saudi Arabia and ex...
24 June 2024
Decarbonizing Saudi Arabia’s Residential Sector: Designing Behavioral Interventions for Efficient and Sustainable Energy Consumption
There is a consensus in the literature regarding the significant role of behavioral change in reducing the level of residential energy consumption. However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the most effective mechanisms and instruments with which to promote energy-efficient acti...
25 March 2024
Achieving Net-Zero GHG Emissions of Saudi Arabia by 2060: The Transformation of the Building SectorIn this paper, an economy-wide, net-zero pathway that enables Saudi Arabia to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 is investigated, with a specific focus on the critical role played by the building sector. An exploration is undertaken of the significance of energy effici...
13 November 2023
Implications of Climate Policy on Energy Poverty
This article examines the complex issue of energy poverty and its various dimensions, including energy access and affordability. It explores the challenges of addressing energy poverty and the trade-offs that may exist between energy poverty and climate change policy.
09 October 2023
Closing the Investment Gap to Achieve Paris Agreement Goalshis study aims to assess the alignment of global sustainable financial flows with transition investment priorities. First, we identify investment gaps based on the difference between the required annual investment to meet global net-zero emissions (NZE) targets and current investmen...
12 January 2025
Roadmap for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) in Saudi Arabia Insights From Stakeholder Engagement and Expert SurveyThis paper presents the findings of a survey conducted by KAPSARC, focusing on the role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology within the framework of Circular Carbon Economy (CCE). The survey, part of the CCE Roadmaps project, aimed to gather insights from diverse stakeholde...
13 March 2025
Progress and Gaps in the Adoption of Clean Cooking Fuels in Africa – Policy Options for Ghana and KenyaAccess to clean cooking fuels is vital for public health, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the key barriers to adopting clean cooking fuels in Ghana and Kenya, asking. Despite progress in urban areas toward liquef...
07 July 2024
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable: An Emerging Field of ResearchResearch on smart sustainable cities (SSCs) has fueled a rapid expansion of scholarly work in recent years. However, the key trends and future research avenues in this field are still ambiguous. This article examines the content of SSC research by conducting network and bibliometric ...
27 May 2024
How the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act Supports Energy Efficiency and Low-Carbon BuildingsThe U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) recognizes that buildings account for a significant share of U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. To address this issue, the IRA includes a range of policies and programs to make energy efficiency and conservation measures more ...
05 May 2024
Decoding the Behavioral Patterns in Saudi Arabia from GASTAT’s Five-Year Household Energy Statistics Survey
This commentary presents the findings of the annual Energy Statistics Survey by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), an ongoing initiative since 2017 that is now in its fifth iteration, which covers 2022. The survey encompasses hundreds of responses from 45,420 households a...
04 June 2023
Energy Transition Amid Converging Global Energy CrisesIn this commentary, we provide a discussion of the factors that have led to the ongoing spike in natural gas prices. We then discuss the potential short- and long-term implications for the global energy transition and for users of natural gas, both residential and industrial. The ana...
08 May 2023
The Rebound Effect in Residential Energy Demand: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Although the rebound effect phenomenon has sp...th-century economist Stanley Jevons (Jevons, 1865). Jevons, in his book The Coal Question (1865), postulated that energy consumption would increase with increasing industrial efficiency as individuals produce and consume more goods.
08 February 2022
The Role of Building Energy Efficiency in Shaping the Energy Transition in Saudi Arabia: Key challenges and initiativesThis commentary discusses a crucial topic that has emerged in the policy and economic literature in recent years: the potential role of energy efficiency in the current energy transition. It provides a straightforward analysis of the prominent role that residential energy efficiency ...
06 May 2024
Projecting Global Oil Demand for the Buildings Sector
one of the largest consumers of energy resources, the building sector plays a key role in the evolution of the global energy landscape. Buildings account for approximately one-third of the world’s final energy consumption. This methodology paper aims to provide a projection of oil de...
17 January 2024
Modeling Long-Term Oil Demand in the Agricultural Sectorhe agricultural sector and global food security are facing an increasing number of risks due to climate change, the increasing population size, rising energy and agricultural demands, competing demands for land for biofuel production, and the degradation of soil quality. Between 2001...
21 April 2024
Smart Cities: Social and Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Local AuthoritiesThis edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at th... This is an open access book
08 February 2024
Smart Cities Initiatives and Perspectives in the MENA Region and Saudi ArabiaThis chapter focuses on the evolution of smart cities in developing countries. It starts by mapping the definitions and evolutions of smart cities concepts. Then it outlines the progress and current practices that emerging economies, in general, have achieved... Read Book Chapter
08 February 2024
Smart Energy Cities: The Role of Behavioral Interventions in Reducing Electricity Demand in Buildings in Principality of MonacoWith energy powering the most attractive aspects of urban environments in modern society, from health, transportation, and comfort to information, business, and leisure, energy cities are perfectly positioned to design the smart city of the future by leveragi... Read Book Chapter
22 April 2021
Renewable Energy in the MENA Region: Key Challenges and Lessons LearnedMany pieces of evidence showing that investments in energy transition can boost GDP and create jobs. Further, national and regional energy transitions can help build resilient economies and societies. Therefore, linking short-term actions to medium-... Read Full Book Chapter Here
01 January 2021
In Eco-Design of Buildings and InfrastructureThis chapter looks at different models and approaches concerning the energy consumption of households and buildings. The modelling of building energy consumption falls completely within this context. The field of building energy consumption modelling is th... Read Full Book Chapter Here
21 October 2020
Why Should Saudi Arabia Diversify Its Economy?Climate change is a global issue. According to an IPCC special report (IPCC, Global warming of 1.5 °C. An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways,... Read Full Book Chapter Here
01 January 2019
Chapter 2 – Role of Economy and Income to Fall in Energy Poverty: Policy ActFuel poverty is a complex and multi-scale issue, which relating the household-level to the country-level and the demand-side to the supply-side. The fuel poverty situation is shaped by various factors, including household social and economic conditi... Read Full Book Chapter Here
12 January 2025
Climate-Resilient Cities: Priorities for the Gulf Cooperation Council CountriesThis edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies risk factors, and suggests policie... Read Full Book Here
14 December 2023
Role Of LPG In Enabling A Just And Inclusive Energy Transition In Africa And The Arab RegionGlobally, 2.3 billion people still lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (CFTs) today, with an overwhelming majority residing in rural areas. Without a dramatic increase in investment and action for scalable solutions, 1.9 billion people will remain without access t...
12 November 2024
Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the GCC Built EnvironmentThe Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, encompassing Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, is distinguished by rapid urbanization, robust economic growth, and substantial energy consumption. The built environment has expanded significantly to ac...
09 January 2024
The Role of Nuclear Power in Clean Energy and Green Transitions
17 January 2023
The Crisis in Electricity Prices in Europe: Context and Key Insights
The cost of electric power in Europe is soaring. After a steady rise in 2021, prices spiked in the first half of 2022 following the post-COVID-19 economic recovery. Day-ahead wholesale electricity prices increased more than threefold on average in 2021 compared to 2020, reachi...
01 March 2022
Why is the EU Carbon Price at a Record €60 per Tonne?Carbon prices soared above €60/tonne for the first time on August 30, 2021, with the expectation of tightened environmental legislation. These prices made a new record on the European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS), the European Union’s carbon market. The stress...
23 November 2021
Why are European Wholesale Electricity Prices Soaring?Since the beginning of summer 2021, European wholesale electricity prices have been soaring to historic highs. The average day-ahead price of electricity for central European countries more than doubled between June and September, reaching 170 euros per megawatthour (e/MWh) on...
24 January 2022
Natural Gas Price Surge: Implications for International Energy Markets and the Way ForwardAs the Northern Hemisphere has moved into winter, the current worldwide surge in energy prices has raised fears of an energy crisis with serious implications. The focus of this brief Instant Insight is twofold. First, we provide a brief overview of the current energy market. W...
15 December 2021
The Implications of Soaring Gas and Coal Prices on Europe’s Energy Poverty TrapWith the recovery of the world economy following the easing of restrictions designed to contain COVID-19, energy demand has surged even as natural gas stocks were dangerously low. This triggered one of the first significant energy shocks of the green era and exposed the fragilities o...
28 September 2021
Assessment of the Impact of the Circular Economy on CO2 Emissions in Europeemissions accelerate global warming but rather to assess the consequences of human activities and identify solutions to this phenomenon before irreversibly disrupting all of our planet’s ecosystems. In this context, international climate actio...et al., 2011; European Commission, 2014).
21 September 2021
How Large is the Extent of COVID-19 on Territorial Inequality? France’s Current Situation and ProspectsThis study develops a straightforward statistical approach to explore the COVID-19 pandemic impact on inequalities. The setting of the study is the economic and social inequalities in France, as an illustration of a particular European country that has been severely affected by the c...
20 September 2021
Impact of Green Entrepreneurship Orientation on Environmental Performance: The Natural Resource-based View and Environmental Policy PerspectiveEnvironmental sustainability is the primary task of environmental entrepreneurship by critically handling increased institutional, customer, and environmental pressures. Green entrepreneurship orientation (GEO) seeks to harmonize their relationships with the external environment to f...
12 May 2021
Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Innovation Capability: The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capability and Organizational Learning CapabilitiesLearning and knowledge creation are acknowledged as crucial drivers associated with entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and innovation capability (IC). Absorptive capacity (AC) harmonizes internal innovation-building activities with external opportunities, while organizati...