Middle East Electricity & Solar 2017

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INDUSTRY NEWS
Informa positions Middle East Power Sector and Opportunities
in the Spotlight
Informa operates at the heart of the Knowledge &
Information Economy.
By Micheal Obineme
Established in 1998, Informa is a
leading business intelligence,
a c a d e m i c p u b l i s h i n g ,
knowledge and events business,
operating within the Knowledge
and Information Economy.
Informa is organized into four
Operating Divisions, with a fifth
Division, Global Support,
providing business services that
support the Group and other
Divisions with over 7,500
employees globally, with a
presence and customers in North
and South America, Asia,
Europe, the Middle East and
Africa.
Informa’s four Operating
Divisions provide products and
services based on content,
intelligence and connections to
specialist communities globally.
These include academic books
and journals, data-driven
intelligence publications and
s e r v i c e s , e x h i b i t i o n s ,
conferences and learning
platforms.
Informa Exhibitions delivers
170 trade and consumer
exhibitions annually across the
g l o b e w h i c h e n a b l e s
communities to engage,
experience and do business.
Informa Exhibitions connects
groups seeking to identify new
contacts, develop relationships,
improve and expand their
business. The Exhibitions,
brings industry professionals
together to share information,
gain inspiration and secure new
business, creating platforms for
organisations to build profitable
alliances, create value and drive
commercial success.
Informa Exhibitions is the
organiser of Middle East
Electricity Exhibitions and
Conferences. Informa creates
series of features and interactive
sessions duirng the event as it
creates ways to better manage
Middle East Power Sector,
making disparate electricity systems
i n t e r o p e r a b l e , i n s t a l l i n g e n e rg y
management systems strategically
throughout a city and investing in smart
meters and grids, and then assuring an
operational plan exists, improving the
energy products used by cities, how to make
cities 100 per cent renewable and much
more.
The information industry is an array of
segments, including news, market research,
business media, data services, events,
scholarly publishing, financial and risk
information, training and education which
serves a broad set of needs in the Middle
East. And all of its contours are undergoing
profound structural change, a result of
technology’s ongoing and persistent march.
Underlying growth in the industry ebbs and
flows with the economy.
MEE Collaborate with Dubai Municipality to Boost Smart
City Innovations
Middle East Electricity (MEE), one of the
world’s leading power exhibitions, has
announced its theme for the 2017 edition.
Alongside Dubai Municipality and the
Environmental Centre for Arab Towns, who
are Strategic Partners for the event, the
organisers will be creating a series of new
features, conferences and activations all
focusing on the future of Smart Cities,and the
innovations which are set to lead the way both
locally and internationally in the coming
decade.
Developing Smart Cities is a key focus of the
Middle East energy industry, with key
government projects such as the Smart Dubai
initiative driving growth in this area.
Dubai Municipality is collaborating with
Middle East Electricity 2017 on the Smart
Cities theme. They are currently working on a
Smart City goal and will use Middle East
Electricity 2017 to update the industry on
their progress.
This includes advancements in their ‘City Portal’
technology which allows integration,
automation and monitoring of a large number of
services within Dubai, in order to ensure the city
continues to meet demand from its growing
population and to improve quality of life for its
inhabitants.
In terms of energy, this is crucial to improving efficiency and
continuing to meet the city’s power needs. Dubai Municipality are
also in the process of rolling out the ‘Smart Palm’ project, consisting
of recharge stations and info points with complimentary Wi-Fi, across
Dubai.
Dubai’s Smart City strategy plans to transform a thousand
government services into smart services. The project aims to
encourage collaboration between the public and private sectors to
achieve targets in six particular focus areas: Smart Life, Smart
Transportation, Smart Society, Smart Economy, Smart Governance
and Smart Environment. The strategy will rely on three basic
principles – communication, integration and cooperation.
The UAE is encouraging the use of electric cars and building the
necessary infrastructure to support them. A number of initiatives
including the development of ‘smart electrical grids’ to encourage
owners of houses and buildings in Dubai to use solar energy and sell
the surplus to the government through the network itself, as well as
"smart meters" that contribute to economising the consumption of
electricity and water are being developed. The Dubai Plan 2021
which plans to develop Dubai into a “smart, integrated and connected
city” has a strong focus on energy sustainability and using renewable
energy sources. Integration of Smart Cities plans with GCC housing
projects will lead to the economising of energy use at large.