The Energy Gang

The conflict in the Middle East has made energy security the dominant issue at this year’s ADIPEC, the huge global energy conference in Abu Dhabi. In this special episode, recorded live in front of an audience at the event, host Ed Crooks asks what resilience means for a range of countries and sectors around the world, and discusses what companies and governments are doing to...

As the ADIPEC 2026 conference gets under way, energy security and resilience are the central themes. Technological advances and international conflicts are creating new physical and cyber threats to energy supplies and infrastructure. The energy industry is being called on to provide resilience and supply security, which means seeing the risk of disruption early and adapting ...

America needs more electricity, but building new power lines takes time. Some transmission projects in the US have taken more than 20 years to complete. Many others have been blocked completely. With power demand rising rapidly, driven by AI data centres, electrification and industrial growth, the pressure is on to find ways to make better use of the grid we already have. Cou...

Americas needs more electricity, and fast. Data centres for AI, and new factories for computer chips and batteries, are driving up demand for electricity, putting mounting pressure on a power grid that has already been struggling. Across different industrial sectors, and different parts of the political spectrum, there is a broad agreement that new transmission infrastructure...

Energy companies use sensors and AI to anticipate equipment failure. Can the same predictive approach protect the people operating that equipment, without turning safety systems into a new form of workplace surveillance? As AI moves from screens into robots, control rooms and industrial sites, that question is becoming practical, not theoretical.

Host Ed Crooks is joine...