Siemens today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to supply the country’s first digital power transformer – Siemens’ Sensformer. As the world’s first comprehensive digital transformer, Sensformer, is expected to increase energy reliability and efficiency for the Kafr El Sheikh and New Zagazig 500/220-kilovolt (kV) substations for […]

More than half of UAE residents (57%) are taking active measures to reduce air pollution, with a quarter (26%) claiming to do it regularly and almost a third (31%) doing it sometimes when they remember, YouGov’s new survey reveals. On the occasion of World Environment Day, YouGov asked respondents what measures do they take to […]

Nestlé Middle East has since 2010 achieved a 42% reduction in water withdrawal per ton of product, a 34% decrease in energy consumption, and 28% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, while its production went up by 68%. The company has also achieved Zero waste for disposal at its food manufacturing sites in the region. The […]

The last decade or two have made more and more people, from government officials to regular citizens, realize that with the current population growth and the continued industrial expansion, we face many climate change challenges all the while hoping to stave off an environmental crisis. Many of the currently used technologies must be upgraded and […]

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, has announced plans to plant 1,000 ghaf trees across its premises during the Year of Tolerance, emphasizing the values of openness, communication and mutual respect that have characterized the UAE since its founding more than four […]