DOHA: Qatar will soon have a law making it mandatory for all new constructions coming up in the country to install thermal insulation as part of energy conservation measures.
Utility distributor, Kahramaa, and the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning have agreed to frame a law that would ensure that all future constructions have thermal insulation. This was disclosed yesterday by Kahramaa’s chairman, Eisa bin Hilal Al Kuwari, in an address on the occasion of 3rd annual event to mark energy and water conservation initiative called ‘Tarsheed’.
“Insulating a building is the best thing to do to reduce electricity consumption,” he said.
He said one of the major achievements has been that less energy-efficient air-conditioners have been stopped from being imported after Qatar’s own specifications were issued for A/Cs.
“We are on target and hope that by 2017 we will be able to reduce per capita water consumption by 35 percent and electricity use by 20 percent,” he said.
Kahramaa has inked deals with some 42 institutions to promote Tarsheed and they include research institutions as well as government and private offices.
The Minister of Energy and Industry, H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada, attended the event along with Dr Sheikh Khalid bin Thani Al Thani.
Al Sada said that in the last three years, due to Tarsheed, Qatar had saved QR600m ($165m) by stopping the waste of electricity and water as per capita electricity use was down by 11 percent and water consumption by a similar percentage.
Carbon dioxide emission is down by 1.8 million tonnes in the period, he said. The Peninsula
DOHA: Field inspectors from utility distributor, Kahramaa, caught some 15,000 cases of water and electricity waste last year and imposed fines on them for breaching the provisions of water and electricity conservation law. The violators included homes, commercial as well as industrial units. All Kahramaa sub-stations will this year have solar power panels as part of ‘Tarsheed’. Studies have also been conducted to use solar and wind energy. The Peninsula
