Abu Dhabi-based Masdar is a new kind of global energy company that takes a holistic approach to the changing realities of power generation and consumption around the world. Integrating research, development and innovation with investment, sustainable production, deployment and export, Masdar serves as a link between today’s fossil fuel economy and a new energy future - developing the “greenprint” for how we will live and work tomorrow.
Masdar operates across the broad fields of renewable power generation, carbon abatement and sequestration, sustainable urban planning and development, demand reduction technologies and systems, and investments in renewable energy and clean technology. As well, its independent, graduate-level research university is a source of innovation, human capital, and research and development into renewable energy and sustainable technologies.
Backed by the Mubadala Development Company, an investment vehicle of the Abu Dhabi government and a crucial catalyst for the emirate’s long-term economic diversification, Masdar extends the UAE’s existing leadership in the conventional energy sector to include the vitally important field of renewable energy. Masdar also is helping diversify the UAE’s economy by enabling the development of knowledge-intensive cleantech industries that are new to the country. As a result, the company is helping build a more sustainable future for the UAE and the world.
Masdar recognises that energy infrastructure, markets and policies across the globe are becoming increasingly integrated and interconnected. Smart grids are enabling future-changing energy linkages all the way from power plants down to individual home appliances in a manner unimaginable only a few years ago. At the same time, renewable power is enabling decentralised generation, thereby requiring a much more flexible, and “smarter”, transmission and distribution network than exists today.