The Exhibition features 14 halls, 1,600 exhibitors and expects 60,000 visitors
Power industry professionals from around the world will converge at Middle East Electricity 2019 during the first week of March, for the 44th edition of the region’s leading event for the power industry, to debate, promote and reshape the future of a sector beset by game-changing disruption.
The exhibition features 14 exhibition halls, and an anticipated turnout of more than 60,000 industry professionals will discover more than 1,600 leading manufacturers and suppliers from all continents ready to promote a multitude of disparate technology.
MEE 2019 includes five dedicated sectors within a combined mega-show power generation; transmission and distribution; lighting; solar; and energy storage and management.
“From smart grids to bifacial solar panels and everything from generation to transmission, distribution and all touch points in between that are re-energising and recalibrating a sector on the tipping point of total transformation, MEE 2019 has it all,” explained Claudia Konieczna, Exhibition Director, Informa Industrial Group, organisers of MEE.
“The industry is focused on discovering new business practices and technologies to address pressing issues of rising power demand, the need to control critical power costs and hasten the adoption of renewables to progress more sustainable business models,” added Konieczna.
Boosting the programme this year is the pioneering, opening day conference focusing on IoT lighting – the first of its kind in the region – when experts from the Middle East, South America, Europe, India and the USA will probe the possible advances from leveraging IoT within the lighting sector and its ability to transform lifestyles.
Some of the biggest names and emerging players in the business will address the challenges, pinpoint growth opportunities and identify technologies and tactics needed to survive in a rapidly changing industry. The conference will also feature case studies from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and Ghana, as well as the unveiling of new research on preventative maintenance for international combustion engines using AI and big data.
Middle East Electricity is being held against a backdrop of a bullish forecast by the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation (APICORP). The multilateral development bank has predicted the MENA region’s power capacity will expand by an average of 6.4% annually by 2022, corresponding to additional capacity of 117 gigawatts and requiring US$ 152bn of investment in generation capacity.
