Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced plans to design, construct, and operate a solar photovoltaic (PV) plant for the Museum of the Future.
Dubai, Saudi oil giant to foster digitisation in energy sector
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Saudi Aramco to foster collaboration on energy and smart grid innovations.
Dubai launches new Smart Grid Station
The Dubai Smart Grid Station is part of DEWA’s efforts to implement technologies which link smart buildings for the exchange of information, improve energy and water efficiency, and optimise renewable energy in smart cities.
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar brings solar power to “off-grid” communities
Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has positioned itself in the commercial off-grid energy sector by increasing its capacity to rapidly deploy solar kits in off-grid communities around the world.
DEWA, Siemens to bring new technologies to UAE’s energy sector
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Siemens have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in R&D, exchange expertise and know-how, as well as building national capacities in energy technologies.
Middle East petrochemical plants slated to go online in the next nine years
Around 1,158 announced petrochemicals plants are slated to come online in the next nine years, primarily in Asia and the Middle East.
Dubai’s DEWA to develop AI-powered utility solutions
Dubai’s DEWA has signed a new MoU develop innovative and futuristic solutions to disrupt the current electricity and water utility business models.
Schneider Electric calls to bridge skills gap in energy sector
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7, to “ensure access to affordable, reliable and modern energy for all”, could create …
Saudi Arabia to set up new platform to drive digital transformation
Saudi Aramco and the Saudi Information Technology Company signed an agreement to set up a joint venture firm that will develop a platform to invest in high potential growth companies in the ICT sector.
Cyber-attack on oil firm targets UAE, Saudi Arabia servers
Italian oil services company Saipem said it had identified a cyber-attack out of India that had primarily affected its servers in the Middle East.
DEWA rolls out new features for AI-based virtual employee
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has launched the second phase of Rammas, its virtual employee that answers customers’ queries using artificial intelligence (AI).
AI, intelligent cloud empowers efficiencies in energy sector: Microsoft
Microsoft has demonstrated the power of digital transformation to the region’s oil and gas industry, as the company participated in the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2018.
“Data is the new oil,” says UAE AI minister
Emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, blockchain and Internet of Things are going to radically change the energy industry, says UAE Minister for AI Omar bin Sultan Al Olama.
Saudi Aramco inaugurates upstream R&D hub in Russia
Saudi Aramco, a global petroleum and natural gas company, has reportedly broken ground on a new upstream research and development (R&D) centre in Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia.