The new CEO of Saudi Electricity Company is tasked with making the company’s electric grid and operations more efficient while realising the government’s ambitious power development plan. In his previous role as executive director for power systems at Saudi Aramco, Al-Shiha promoted cogeneration plants, and previously estimated that the country could save hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day by increasing efficiency in supply and demand. Saudi Arabia is set to spend more than $186 billion in the next two decades to upgrade its water and electricity production.