Innovation

Masdar City

Masdar City is a rapidly growing eco-friendly, clean technology cluster in the UAE. Masdar City aims to be a fully green city with all electricity powered by renewable energy. When completed the city will be a world-first urban development.

Masdar City is a hub for innovation, research and development. The city will be a centre for advancing in water and energy solutions while also being a world-first in Mobility and Artificial Intelligence.

It achieves its smart city status by availing of the desert sun to power it’s solar panels. These solar panels power everything from the Universities and housing to public transportation. The Masdar City Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) has celebrated its 6th anniversary and has now served over 2 million passengers. The passengers are transported around the futuristic city in pods that uses magnets embedded in the road. Eradicating the need for personal vehicles directly keeping the settlement low on carbon & pollution-free.

Living in the Arab desert has extreme temperatures and the city has a solution for this too. The city is cooled by a system that uses two solar thermal collectors that gathers energy from the sun to heat water for the systems 50-tonne absorption chiller.

“There are only a handful of these systems in the world,”

Simon Braeuniger, a project manager at Masdar.