الفهرس 
Title : Economic Assessment of Installing Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant in Egypt
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Abstract
Energy sustainability is the main concern of the world especially because of the limited natural resources while the demand on these resources is rapidly increasing. This situation directed the governments to look for other energy alternatives to sustain their energy resources. One of the clean energy sources is pumped storage hydroelectric power plants (PSHPPs) which is one of the most applicable energy storage technologies on a large scale capacity generation and on the level of economic viability. Although PSHPP is not a recent electricity generation technology, it has some limitations to construct such as the site suitability and the huge investment costs needed compared to traditional generation technologies from fossil fuel. Therefore this thesis studies all the economic aspects relating to constructing PSHPP in Egypt, specifically on Attaqa Mountain as one of the suitable places in Egypt to construct such kind of generation power plants according to previous studies, to be compared with traditional generation technologies based on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) concept taking into account different scenarios for PSHPP (including operation and capital costs) and different scenarios for fuel prices of traditional technologies to conduct the conditions at which PSHPP will have a competitiveness over traditional generation technologies. PSHPP as a clean energy source is expected to have an impact on the amounts of fuel consumed in the Egyptian Unified Grid, so this is another concern of the thesis to study how interconnecting PSHPP to the Egyptian Unified Grid have an impact on the fuel consumed in the grid using a software package tool called Electrical Generation Expansion Analysis Software (EGEAS) that is used for system operation optimization to calculate if there will be any avoided fuel costs in the Egyptian Unified Grid in case of interconnecting PSHPP or no