Greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential of Jordan's utility scale wind and solar projects

Jordan's high reliance on foreign energy sources forced the country to reconsider its energy consumption policies and address the issue of reliance on international energy markets for direct imports. moreover,renewable energy sources offer important environmental,social and economic benefits. wind and solar energy,in particular,carries a very good potential in solving the energy problem in jordan,diversify its energy supplies and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. this paper focuses on the green house gas (ghg) emission reduction associated with the implementation of jordan energy strategy's solar and wind projects. four different scenarios were investigated based on the replaced traditional fuel type used for electricity generation that the proposed project will replace. the study shows that the proposed solar and wind project will result in a significant reduction of the country's projected greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions of 1.93-3.21 mega tons of co2e annually. © 2016 jordan journal of mechanical and industrial engineering.