Energy

Although electric vehicles are beginning to make inroads into the passenger car market in developed markets, for the foreseeable future the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) will continue to dominate road transport in developing countries and in the global truck sector.

Around the world, oil majors are increasingly exploring the potential to create new business by breaking down hydrocarbons into their constituent parts of hydrogen and carbon and developing new uses for them. Aramco is emerging as a pioneer in the development of technologies for the production and distribution of hydrogen.

As the world’s largest producer of oil, Saudi Aramco has a unique responsibility to provide global markets with a reliable and secure supply of crude. Aramco scientists are developing advanced non-metallic materials for applications in the oil sector and beyond.

"Smart grids are the necessary support to the rise of renewable energy and the emergence of consumers who generate their own electricity." Livio Gallo, Head of Global Infrastructure and Networks, Enel

I don’t know where technology will lead us in the future, but I do know that a smart city is one that improves our lives while preserving our values.

Earlier this year, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) inaugurated a Digital Command Center that uses AI to monitor and manage the company’s ever-expanding...

In a not-too-distant future, ordinary consumers will even be able to sell the power stored by batteries in their parked electric cars back into the network.

In 2015, Enel CEO Francesco Starace launched a visionary, wide-ranging program called Futur-e to explore options for re-purposing 23 of the company’s largest power stations in Italy.

As the global car industry prepares for the long transition to electric vehicles, there is growing interest in the potential of compressed natural gas (CNG).

Designed to reach 5GW of power in 2030, the $13.6 billion Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum Solar Park (MBR) in Dubai is the largest single-site solar project in the world.