How Reactive Technologies supports the UAE’s renewable energy transition

• The UAE is advancing towards its Net Zero 2050 Strategy, aiming for 44% renewable energy by 2050.
• Reactive Technologies helps grid operators enhance resilience and optimise renewable integration through data analytics.
• The company’s advancements show its ability to support the UAE’s clean energy and digital infrastructure requirements.

The UAE progresses towards its Net Zero 2050 Strategy while rapidly expanding digital infrastructure, including large-scale data centres. Its energy and utilities sector is evolving quickly, supported by large investments in grid modernisation and clean-energy integration. The aforementioned agenda, for example, sets a target of 44% renewable energy by 2050, reinforcing the nation’s commitment to a sustainable and resilient energy system.

Within this context, Reactive Technologies — a strategic partner of Seed Group — brings its globally proven expertise in real-time grid measurement and stability analytics to the UAE. Its recent work with Great Britain’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) underlines how high-precision monitoring and data-driven insights can support modern power systems. These lessons are particularly relevant as the UAE expands its renewable and digital infrastructure.

Stability pressures in modern UAE grids

The UAE’s power system is evolving as it accelerates its energy transition and bolsters its digital infrastructure. With power capacity projected to reach 79.1 GW by 2035, partly driven by booming demand from data centres, the grid must contend with increasingly volatile loads and high peaks. Meanwhile, the rapid deployment of solar and other inverter-based renewables is altering system inertia, thereby introducing new considerations for maintaining grid stability.

By continuing to invest in grid infrastructure and flexibility, the UAE can maximise the benefits of this clean-energy surge while maintaining a reliable and future-ready system. Seasonal factors, such as extreme summer temperatures, increased cooling needs, and rising digital-economy consumption, amplify the operational challenge. This highlights the growing importance of live data monitoring and resilience tools as the country pursues long-term stability and sustainability.

Reactive Technologies’ solutions address core grid needs

Reactive Technologies’ data-driven approach provides operators with real-time insight into how a grid behaves under changing conditions. This is a valuable capability, particularly in areas where renewable generation and modern loads are rapidly increasing. Through its patented GridMetrix® platform and high-fidelity grid-edge measurement devices, the company delivers best-in-class measurement of inertia and system strength.

These insights help operators maintain stability, manage disturbances confidently, and plan long-term infrastructure with greater precision, supporting both national reliability targets and digital-economy growth. Its latest deployment of live oscillation detection and monitoring across Great Britain’s NESO control room demonstrates the practical significance of these capabilities in real-time grid management. This advancement gives operators continuous visibility of oscillations, automated event analysis, and prompt localisation of disturbances.

This success further validates Reactive’s readiness to support the UAE’s system needs as it integrates more clean energy and modern digital infrastructure.

Building a foundation for regional growth

Reactive Technologies’ newly strengthened capabilities matter for the UAE because they reflect the type of resilience-focused, live monitoring increasingly needed in modern power systems. Through its partnership with Seed Group, a company of The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, Reactive gains the strategic foundation required to introduce advanced grid-stability solutions aligned with national priorities. This alliance enables the company to introduce solutions that strengthen system visibility, support operational readiness, and contribute to the MENA region’s broader energy-transition agenda.

With the Group’s regional impact and Reactive Technologies’ real-time measurement expertise, the partnership creates strong foundations for scaling solutions in the UAE and across the region. This collaboration positions both companies to contribute meaningfully to a more resilient and future-ready energy ecosystem that supports business growth and national sustainability ambitions.

About Reactive Techonologies

Reactive Technologies Limited (RTL) is a global Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) company at the forefront of addressing the challenges of the renewable energy transition by measuring power grid inertia and system strength in real-time.

With our proven, first-of-its-kind GridMetrix® technology, we provide real-time, high resolution power grid measurements and data-driven insights into grid stability and reliability. This enables grid operators, utilities, asset owners and energy participants worldwide to plan and operate with greater insight, precision and resilience in a rapidly expanding renewable energy landscape with more inverter-based resources.

Our strong foundation in technological innovation and a deep understanding of the challenges facing the energy industry, has enabled us to evolve into a global technology company headquartered in London, UK. Our dedicated sales and project delivery teams work closely with customers worldwide, supported by commercial offices on the East and West Coasts of the USA, as well as in the UAE and Australia, and an advanced R&D center in Finland. For more information, visit www.reactive-technologies.com.