SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Prince Sultan University taken efforts on bringing the environment pollution free and contribute towards climate change. As an important stakeholder, PSU contributes towards the achievement of sustainable cities and communities through various events, practices, and research. It regularly organizes events and exhibitions for students and employees to promote the affordable, clean and sustainable energy for all.

The strong commitment can be witnessed from the type of support provided in events related to clean energy, EV and the sustainable practices followed for sustainable PSU campus to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency, research contribution on microgrid and EV, etc. Moreover, the integration of clean and affordable energy as an important topic is endorsed in our curriculum and outreach.

Achievements

MoU with Koncar

The Prince Sultan University is involved in several industrial collaborations that are leading the way in the search for alternative energy sources. One such example comes from our Renewable Energy Lab, who are in cooperation with Koncar Power Plant Electric Traction, Croatia for a collaborative consultancy project on microgrids test bench for EV charging and renewable energy.

The focus areas of the sponsors chosen business themes towards Saudi Vision 2030 and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7,9, 11). The chosen themes help students, researchers, and faculty to gain the knowledge and experience on new technologies in the clean energy domain.

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MoU with Power and Telecom Technologies Co., KFB Holding Group, Riyadh

The Prince Sultan University is involved in several industrial collaborations that are leading the way in the search for alternative energy sources. One such example comes from our Renewable Energy Lab, who are in cooperation with Power and Telecom Technologies Co., KFB Holding Group, Riyadh for a collaborative consultancy project on investigations on minimizing electricity cost and feasibility study of self-sustainable campus.

The main objective of the project is to study PSU Lighting electricity network to provide Strategic solutions as per the sustainable development goals (SDG 7, 9, 11)

Benchmarking the energy usage with Solar based LED Lighting
Implementing stepping stones for the Localization Target within renewable energy based lighting sector in context of the Vision 2030

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Metrics

7.1 - Research on affordable and clean energy

PSU's scholarly output researches related to affordable and clean energy in the past academic year has 832 views, cited 189 times and has 4.40 citations per paper.

7.4 - Energy and the community

PSU is partnered with ESF for achieving the following sustainable development goals (SDG 7,11,13 & 17), to promote 100% renewables and to train the students, researchers, faculty, and technical staff in PSU on Solar PV System Design with digital certification.