(with photos) ABU-DHABI, April 6 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) is striving to finalize the researches and feasibility studies on the applications of renewable energy in Kuwait as well as the possible impact on local environment, a senior official said here Wednesday.

The studies deal also with the technical conditions and safeguards relating to such energies, Director of KISR's renewable energy program Dr. Salem Fallah Al-Hajraf said.

He made the remarks in statements to KUNA on the sidelines of the session of the General Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) which opened here on Monday.

"Thanks to the KD one million donation by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KISR developed four studies on the best model of power generating stations," he said.

The institute, in collaboration with an international team, will work out a strategy for diversifying the sources of energy and leveraging the uses of renewable energies in the country until 2030 including the related legislations and rationing the consumption of fossil fuels," Al-Hajraf revealed.

The strategy will save up to KD 1.4 billion of the funds being spent on consumption of the traditional energy annually in addition to the environment return resulting from the curtailment of oil and gas burning, added.

The IRENA session gathered more than 90 ministers and 800 representatives of businesses and non-governmental organizations from over 150 countries. Kuwait's delegation, led by KISR Deputy Director General Dr. Mohammad Jassem Salman, is made up of Al-Hajraf and Deputy Cultural Attach in Dubai Dr. Osama Al-Yousof and representative of the Foreign Ministry Abdullah Al-Hajeri.