Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) President Eng. Issa bin Hilal Al Kuwari has underlined that the Corporation currently has the capacity to meet all the country's electricity and water needs over the next five years.
Eng. Issa bin Hilal Al Kuwari said that KAHRAMAA has all the necessary reserves to operate all the projects in the country whenever required and that it has many plans to enhance its role to fulfil its mission of providing sufficient quantities of electricity and water to meet the country's energy future needs, in accordance with internationally recognized standards.
He explained that all electricity and water projects in the country are proceeding as planned without delay and that additional projects in the fields of electricity, water and solar energy will be announced soon.
During the second quarter of this year, Kahramaa succeeded in meeting the growing demand for electricity and water services with great efficiency thanks to the great efforts and coordination between all the concerned authorities in the country, the statement added, where the maximum load reached by the electricity network during this period 7600 MW, while the maximum demand for water was 375 million gallons.
Eng. Issa bin Hilal Al Kuwari said that the levels of electricity and water production in the country are constantly increasing to keep pace with the country's steady growth in all fields. The second quarter of 2017 witnessed the operating of the first phase of the Umm Al-Hall Electricity and Water Production Project, noting that the current phase of the plant feeds the network with a production of 60 million gallons of water and 1612 MW of electricity and final operation of this phase of the project will be completed this July. The new quantities of production of the network increased the electricity production reserve to more than 23 percent and the water production reserve increased by about 15 percent while the water storage capacity increased to 1472 million gallons, an increase of 10 percent.
