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Air conditioning consumes 70 pct of Kuwait''s electricity at prime time

KUWAIT, May 26 (KUNA) -- Air conditioners are the biggest electricity guzzlers in the State of Kuwait under the harsh weather conditions at most time of the year, an engineer specialized in power technologies said Thursday.
She added that air conditioners consume 70 percent of the total electric load during prime time, and 45 percent of the annual power consumption.
The previous remark was made by engineer Hanai Al-Taqi during a lecture titled "Energy in Kuwait," that was organized by energy technologies department of the Environment and Urban Development Division at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) within a program including two other scientific lectures.
Al-Taqi said that the individual high consumption of electric power is due to some factors of consumption waste which is prompted by the very low cost of electricity in Kuwait in what pushes up the electric load to range between 6 to 8 percent compared to industrialized countries in which the electric load ranges between 2 to 3 percent.
Finally, she said that in view of the increasingly continued consumption of electricity, the Ministry of Electricity and Water is investing huge funds in building new power plants to generate more electricity and to cover the necessary fuel cost, noting that current statistics show that 55 percent of the local fuel is used in the electricity and water sector. (end) zak.tb.aff KUNA 261837 May 11NNNN