Ladun Investment Company has secured SAR2.39 billion ($637 million) contracts to carry out infrastructure development work at Al Qirawan and Al Narjis districts as well as the Namar real estate development - in the Saudi capital. They will be executed in consortium with Al Ayuni Investment and Contracting.
OECD net electricity generation reached 920.8 TWh in February 2026, up 0.8 per cent year-on-year. Fossil fuels supplied 45.4 per cent of output despite declining 4.7 per cent, while renewables contributed 37.8 per cent and nuclear power accounted for 15.7 per cent of generation.
For years, the technology industry sold artificial intelligence as a miracle solution that would cut costs, eliminate inefficiency and usher in a new era of productivity. But beneath the glossy presentations and billion-dollar valuations lies a more uncomfortable truth: AI is not cheap, writes Emmanuel Abara Benson in an Impact Newswire article.
Türkiye raised electricity and natural gas prices, increasing household electricity prices by 25 per cent and household natural gas prices by an average of 25 per cent, citing rising global and domestic energy costs.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that it has set a new world record for the lowest electricity customer minutes lost (CML), at just 0.82 minutes (about 49 seconds) per year. With this, the Dubai utility has surpassed its own previous world record of 0.94 minutes in 2024.
Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy announced on Sunday that a service building at one of the power and water distillation plants was damaged in an Iranian attack, resulting in the death of an Indian worker.
As part of its growth in electricity in Germany, TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) for the sale of a 50 per cent stake in a portfolio of 11 battery storage projects with a total capacity of 789 MW – 1628 MWh.
Global power demand is set to grow by more than 3.5% per year on average over the rest of this decade, with electricity generation from renewables, natural gas and nuclear all expanding to keep pace, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
PureHealth, the largest healthcare group in the Middle East, and Yellow Door Energy, the leading sustainable energy partner for businesses in the Middle East and South Africa, have signed a master lease agreement to bring clean electricity to its network of hospitals and clinics in the UAE.
ABB opened a $2-million training and customer experience facility in the UAE to develop digital and engineering skills for industrial, power and utility applications across the Middle East.
