Simulators

KORA is a crude oil refinery simulator that provides multilevel views of the refining landscape, offering facility, national, regional, and global analyses of refineries worldwide. KORA is also designed to provide optimization functionality for benchmarking individual refineries to best-practice performance among refineries of similar design and across levels of refining complexity.

Saudi Arabia aims to achieve 100-130 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity before 2030 and plans to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by then. This interactive geospatial dashboard displays current and future solar and wind energy projects in Saudi Arabia, including completed and upcoming projects, categorized by year, project type, and status.

The LCA tool is a comprehensive instrument that provides detailed insights into the entire life cycle of jet fuel greenhouse gas emissions for aviation in Saudi Arabia – from oil extraction and transportation to jet fuel production, distribution, and aircraft operation. It emphasizes the importance of each stage and the variables influencing impact estimations. Additionally, the tool allows users to perform customized assessments based on specific parameter changes (e.g., extraction practices, transportation, aircraft operation). It provides default values that users can easily adjust. Finally, it enables comparisons between different parameter changes and operational practices, and conducts scenario analyses to forecast potential environmental impacts from operational or technological changes, demonstrating the implications of assumptions and advantages over base-case scenarios.

The KAPSARC Energy Data Portal is available to anyone seeking energy data for research. It is designed to enable users to better understand energy, including energy economics and energy policies.

The KREDM is a region-specific econometric model designed to analyze electricity demand in Saudi Arabia, accounting for regional disparities and facilitating policy and design scenario simulations. By integrating essential factors such as GDP growth, sectoral price changes, inflation, and population growth, this model provides an in-depth understanding of the driving forces influencing electricity demand across various regions within the country.

Hydrogen is emerging as an important energy vector that can accelerate the path toward net-zero emissions. Given its diverse application and its potential to abate carbon emissions, it is ideally suited as an enabler to the circular carbon economy. This H2 Cost Analysis tool provides a quick, simple, and convenient analysis for electrolysis and SMR- based hydrogen production options. Users can alter values for a large set of input parameters to assess the corresponding impact on the levelized cost of hydrogen production and financial performance of the use case.

This application allows users to access and download key insights and publications.

The KAPSARC Energy Model for Saudi Arabia is a partial economic equilibrium model that represents six major energy producing and consuming sectors in Saudi Arabia. These sectors are electric power, petrochemicals, refining, water desalination, upstream oil and gas, and cement.

Saudi Arabia aims at transforming its hydrocarbon resource-rich economy into a sustainable and diversified one over the coming decade. With this goal in mind, the Vision 2030 initiative introduces a set of complex socio-economic transformation targets. As a result, diversification is expected to significantly change the sectoral composition of the economy, with the manufacturing and service sectors becoming further pillars of sustainable growth. This tool allows for a medium-term impact analysis based on relevant IOT with updated inter-industry flows and technical coefficients matrix.

This app is designed to enable better understanding of maritime transportation across ports of various countries. The model calculates shortest paths, emissions (CO2, CH4), total trade in weight and shows commodities traded.

KAPSARC Datahub is designed to control the data versions that energy economy and climate models receive. Datahub offers Github-like functionality for modelers’ collaboration on data versions.

Datahub delineates data and its version management from model development. Maintain data in DataHub, create models in the modeling ecosystem, and call data, as necessary.

With the help of this solution, data specialists can continue to maintain data while modelers focus on developing models.

A domestic policy analysis tool that captures the interactions between Saudi Arabia and other global economies.

The KAPSARC Building Energy Assessment Tool is a web-based energy analysis tool designed to assist users in improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings.

This toolkit presents interactive data on capital costs and levelized cost of energy for solar photovoltaic technology by year and country.

This app has been inspired by the fuel substitution witnessed in Japan after the Fukushima disaster, which saw 50 GW of nuclear capacity go offline. Natural gas, coal and petroleum products were used to replace nuclear power. We developed this calculator to estimate what volume of a given fuel would be needed to generate the same power of the displaced or substituted fuel.

The Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) Index is a tool for energy and climate policymakers and stakeholders to quantify and compare country performance and potential for reaching CCEs. The index measures and benchmarks major economies and oil-producing countries on two temporal dimensions: The CCE Performance sub-index measures countries’ current performance on the various CCE activities (e.g., energy efficiency, renewable energy, fuel switching, or carbon capture and storage). The Enablers sub-index gauges how countries are positioned to progress toward the CCE based on key enabling factors.

KAPSARC‘s Utilities of the Future project focuses on how technological disruptions from distributed energy resources (DERs) are transforming the electric power industry. Advances in generation technology and cost reductions are providing customers with attractive alternatives to electric utility services and opportunities to become ‘prosumers.’ This shift may reduce the reliance on centralized generators and the grid, ultimately changing the way electricity is produced, sold, transported and consumed. As a result, utilities around the world are re-evaluating their business models, and regulators are considering electricity market reforms.

This project addresses the key market, regulatory and energy policy issues necessary to achieving policy objectives in a power sector with high penetration of DERs.

The KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis is an open source platform for building models. It enables a systematic and rigorous analysis of collective decision-making processes. To download the software, source code, data, presentations, and for more information see www.ktab.software

A scenario-based model to help policymakers explore the incremental user cost implications of different passenger car powertrain technologies.

This tool provides working notes and a high-level description of an embedded domain specific language (EDSL) for modeling the microstructure of electricity markets.

The primary goal of an energy auction is to achieve the lowest-cost dispatch of generated electricity that balances supply and demand while minimizing transmission congestion and system contingency management costs. Auction mechanisms should be open, transparent, and competitive.

A collection of Jupyter notebooks demonstrating how blockchain technologies could improve electricity market design.

This tool combines a TensorFlow-based neural network with a KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis-style collective decision-making process. Specifically, it provides an initial (non-iterated) central position calculation.

The Pecan data retriever is a Python application programming interface for the Pecan Street Dataport.

The KAPSARC Building Energy Assessment Tool (K-BEAT) is a web-based energy analysis tool designed to assist users in improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings. KAPSARC research, including recent work on energy productivity in buildings, has indicated that there is significant potential for reducing energy consumption and demand in new and existing buildings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. K-BEAT can assist in identifying the specific energy efficiency measures and technologies suitable for individual buildings in various regions in Saudi Arabia.

The KAPSARC Toolkit for Behavioral Analysis (KTAB) is an open-source toolkit for assembling agent-based models of negotiation and bargaining. Research from KTAB is available from OpenKAPSARC, and further information on the Toolkit is available here.

The CAMP project aims to assess the implications of achieving net-zero emissions on the overall energy system of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. CAMP provides comprehensive analysis of the long-term implications of various climate-related initiatives and policies adopted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by using an integrated assessment modeling framework and quantitatively assessing the sectoral contribution to the overall target of achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2060.

As a response to recommendations from the “Energy Open Data Ecosystem, Policy Scenario Models & Tools” workshop series organized by KAPSARC since 2018, IEF and KAPSARC have jointly examined KAPSARC data and modeling resources to improve energy balance compilation with Saudi Arabia as a case study. The project successfully identified key opportunities and challenges in improving existing energy balances compiled by reputable international organizations.

The CEDS Sankey Visualization Tool leverages data from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS), a comprehensive open-source framework for historical emission estimates. This allows users to explore emission trends, as CEDS provides consistent data for global air emissions species (BC, CO, CO2, NH3, NMVOC, NOx, OC, SO2) over the industrial era (1750 – present) along with CH4 and N2O over recent decades. With the Sankey tool, users can easily visualize emission flows across sectors and how different sectors contribute to global emissions, as well as track the impact of technologies on global emissions, ultimately gaining data-driven insights to support informed decision-making for a sustainable future.

This model represents a spread option-based formulation that adds a locational dimension to the conventional storage theory and is based on the prices of crude oil at two different locations, factoring in costs of storage and transportation, and the time required to transport oil between them.

This methodology offers a viable alternative to the traditional cost of carry approach; it can also estimate implied convenience yields and the shadow price of inventories, aiding commodity trading strategies.

The three key drivers of inventories—the cost of carry, convenience yield and spread option value—are estimated for eight primary international crude oil storage hubs located at major seaports using daily data from December 21, 2015 to January 25, 2019.

KAPSARC’s India Renewable Energy Policy Atlas provides specific state and national level coverage of energy policies in India. It presents a policy landscape covering many geographies within India to gain holistic and comparative insights into policy frameworks.