OPTIMIZING THE INVESTMENT STRATEGY OF FULLY RENEWABLE ENERGY-WATER SYSTEMS

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to Professor Omar M. Knio for his guidance and support over the past two years. Thank you for providing me important feedback when developing our models and writing the thesis. Many thanks to Dr. Ricardo M. Lima for his advice and constant encouragement. His expertise in the technical and mathematical aspects of this work proved vital. Working together was truly an enriching experience. I appreciate the support of Professor Ibrahim Hoteit, and the members of his research group, Dr. Hari Dasari and Dr. Sivareddy Sanikommu. Their climate data was essential to develop our models. Finally I would like to thank King Abdullah University of Science and Technol ogy (KAUST) as this work was supported by its Center for Excellence for NEOM Research, and utilized its Core Labs resources