NEOM is often marketed as a “future city.” For power and energy engineers, that framing misses the point. NEOM is better understood as a full-scale experiment in next-generation power system architecture —built across desert, coastline, port zones, industrial clusters, and digital infrastructure, under extreme ambient conditions and long project horizons. A conventional new city mainly solves residential and commercial demand. NEOM has to support multiple high-intensity l

A “Smart Port”: Power System First, Logistics System Second Puerto de Chancay is often described as a next-generation “smart port,” but the engineering reality is straightforward: it is a large, electrified industrial system where production capacity is directly bounded by power availability and power quality. Electrified quay cranes, yard cranes, electric tractors, automation platforms, security scanning, cold-chain warehousing, and a centralized control center all shift the