Smart Energy International
Summary
Saudi Arabian electric utility company and NEOM subsidiary ENOWA has announced development of a blueprint for a high-voltage smart grid “that has never been built in the world.”
This is according to ENOWA’s CEO Peter Terium, who in a video interview with Arab News on the side of COP28 said the blueprint will be applied to the NEOM region, a new urban area planned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be built in its northwestern Tabuk Province.
“We call it the concept of grid of microgrids on a high-voltage level and it allows us to reduce the footprint of the corridors by 50% and it allows us to bring the cost of undergrounding (…) down with more than 50%.”
According to the utility company’s chief, the blueprint marks a significant achievement in the energy transition landscape, “given the fact that what we do is, in principle, not very complex. It’s the size that makes it complex.”
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