KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water is "almost done" with a project carried out jointly with the Kuwait Institution for Scientific Research to establish a power plant that uses renewable energy to produce at least 60 megawatts every day, minister Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim announced in a recent statement.
"The project comes as part of the MEW's plans to find safer ways to produce energy aside from depending solely on fossil fuel... and that to provide enough power to meet the rising demand as a result of the state's development projects", Al-Ibrahim said in recent statements to Al-Jarida.
The new project is being built in Al-Shaqaya (near Abdali north of the country), and could be duplicated at other locations "if the experiment is proven successful", according to Al-Ibrahim who is also the state minister of municipality affairs.
Meanwhile, Al-Ibrahim assured of the MEW's plans to meet the increasing demand on electricity this summer which is expected to reach a maximum average of 12,400 megawatts a day, while power plants produce at least 13,000 megawatts a day in collective average.
© Kuwait Times 2012
