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

One Loose Screw, One “Near Miss” – What Really Happened During commissioning of a protection scheme, an engineer completed relay calibration and started to restore the circuits. Everything looked normal—until one phase current value refused to match expectation. Further investigation revealed the cause: one CT secondary terminal screw had not been fully tightened , leaving that phase’s CT secondary circuit effectively open. The current circuit was abnormal, and the situatio