Experts at MEE stress the importance of digitalisation within energy grids

  • Date: 25-May-2021
  • Source: Trade Arabia
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Middle East
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Experts at MEE stress the importance of digitalisation within energy grids

Middle East Energy (MEE) had begun its second virtual sector week, Transmission and Distribution, with the opening session highlighting the importance of digitalisation within energy grids to ensure ongoing reliability, efficiencies and reducing the carbon footprint.

 

The panel session, Impact of digitalisation on transmission and distribution networks, included insights from notable speakers, including Claudio Pedretti, President, Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), he said: "Automation and digital solutions can help transmission and distribution companies successfully navigate today's challenges.

 

"However, we need to make sure that data complexity can be used to improve power transmission and asset management capabilities. A huge amount of data alone will not help improve our asset management. What is needed is strategic thinking and new capabilities and ideas that can be implemented into artificial intelligence algorithms.“

 

Dubai-based Mohamed Ayoub, Regional Growth Leader, GE, highlighted the changes in the way grids are being designed in the market.

 

"With digitalisation, the design margins that we use to consider when designing our transmission networks, our distribution networks, and even generation will be more optimised to ensure that we have a better optimum solution for our grid moving forward. This shift within the industry is enabling us to utilise our capital expenditure better and improving