☀️ DAY ONE - 7 SEPTEMBER 2022
Regional panel: MENA energy future - driving transition and achieving self-sufficiency
- Overview of the MENA’s energy visions and goals
- Exploring the shift in the region’s power sector and the key factors behind it
- Looking at the opportunities in the local markets and how to optimize on their potential to achieve energy self-sufficiency
- Discussing the effect of the lockdown on supply chain management
- Overcoming the labor shortage challenge
Overview on the ever-growing electricity energy demand
- Studying the projections estimating the electricity demand to triple by 2050
- Overview of the factors increasing demand for power
- How have the development of new cities and industrial clusters affected demand?
Panel discussion: Improving transmission and distribution efficiency in the region
- Tackling extreme weather challenge and strengthening network resilience
- Exploring top solutions to enhance grid stability and reduce losses
- Renewable energy connection: overcoming production-consumption balance challenge
- Utilizing innovative automation and digitalization to enhance T&D systems
Dubai approach toward clean energy strategy and implementation plan on the horizon of 2030 & 2050
Panel session: Country briefings – Part 1
- United Arab Emirates 2050 vision and project briefing
- Morocco renewable energy experience, vision and upcoming projects
- Egypt 2030 vision and upcoming project updates
- Oman’s experience in the electricity spot market as a first of its kind in the region
Project spotlights: Updates on latest power projects in the United Arab Emirates
Project spotlights: Hybrid Power Projects
Panel discussion: Nuclear power in the MENA region - opportunities and challenges
Wind power in the MENA region
☀️ DAY TWO - 8 SEPTEMBER 2022
Panel session: Country briefings – Part 2
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia renewable energy strategy and upcoming projects
- Kuwait national vision and project overview
- Jordan project overview and 2030 vision
- 2030 renewables roadmap and opportunities in Bahrain
Extreme weather and power distribution networks resilience
- Improving network reliability and resilience
- Discussing the preparedness and response system in response to extreme weather conditions and natural disasters
- Highlighting MZEC’s experience during the successive cyclones and other extreme weather conditions since 2007
Modernizing distribution systems and networks
- Adopting smart grids for enhanced power distribution
- Smart metering for an efficient consumption tracking and management
- Exploring cyber threats and how to overcome them
- Utilizing gathered data to manage consumption and improve efficiency
Project spotlights: Supplying electric power to a floating desalination plant using a hybrid wind-solar energy system
Project spotlights: Morocco upcoming power project updates
Panel discussion: Solar energy in the MENA Region
- Exploring the potential and opportunities for Solar in the region
- What are the key challenges and how can the industry overcome them?
- Optimizing solar efficiency and reliability: challenges and solution
Panel discussion: Using Hydrogen to empower the transition to a clean, low-carbon energy system
- Exploring zero-carbon energy strategies and role of green hydrogen as a clean and flexible energy source
- Building a sustainable infrastructure for hydrogen production and distribution: visions and roadmap
- Discussing the benefits of integrating hydrogen into your gas turbine operations
Panel discussion: Sustainability in the power sector: Current status and future challenges
- Role of alternative energy in driving sustainability and the region’s emission reduction plans
- Discussing the key strategic and technical solutions for power conservation and energy storage to achieve sustainability goals
- Implementing innovative demand side management strategies and consumer energy efficiency programs
- Role of technology in energy conservation and reducing emissions
- Role of storage in meeting energy changing requirement and increasing demand
Panel Discussion: Optimizing energy storage capacity to meet new energy trends
- Overview of the energy storage impact on the industry
- Role of storage in meeting energy changing requirement and increasing demand
- Renewable energy storage: Key challenges and how to overcome them
- Discussing the innovative strategies and technologies in energy storage
Panel discussion: Overview of power generation digitalization
- Exploring the next generation technologies for power plant digitalization
- Discussing the role of digitalization in enhancing the quality of power generation
- Looking at the challenges of digitalization in the power generation