| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Energy Water |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Doha, Qatar |
| Products | Electricity Water |
| Website | www.kahramaa.com.qa |
Kahramaa (Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation), was established in July 2000 further to the Emiri Law number 10, to regulate and maintain supply of Electricity & Water to customers. Since inception, Kahramaa has operated as an independent corporation on a commercial basis with a total capital of four billion Qatari riyals.
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The Board of directors at Kahramaa is granted extensive authorities to achieve the corporation's goals mainly, the setting, and implementation and follows up of general policies, plans, programs and projects. The board main responsibilities are the approval of corporation’s organizational structure, endorsement of the financial, administrative and technical internal rules and regulations, employees policies and regulations, as well as approving the corporation investment plans, its annual budgets and closing fiscal year and approves loans with the Government and other parties, in addition to review of the operational and strategic performance.
The main financial resources of Kahramaa is the annual allocated funds from the state (government), services fees and revenues, the return of its capital investments on its assets as well as the value of its shares and loans extended to others.
The electricity transmission networks consist of approximately 100 primary high voltage sub-stations with total 660 km of overhead lines supported by 600 km of underground cables across the country. The network is coupled with 6500 low and medium voltage sub-stations (11 kV) and more than 4500 km of cable lines. The National Control Center (NCC), which contains state-of-art technologies, manages all network demand and data acquisition from generation plants and primary sub-stations.
Demand on the electrical energy in Qatar has increased over the past fifty years; the maximum load over the network during the period from 1988 to 2003 has risen from 941 megawatts to 2312 megawatts (MW). It has reached 3230MW in 2006 and expected to increase to 8400MW by 2011.
The water network in Qatar has been expanded extensively in recent years, the growth of urban areas; industry and agriculture has led to the increase in the length of the water network to 3622 km and expansion in the number of storage reservoirs to 23 with a total capacity of 259 million gallons of water a day.
Statistical data in the water sector shows a remarkable growth in the capacities of water storage facilities. To give a comparative trend, such an increase has amounted to 259 million gallons a year in comparison to less than 200 Mgal/yr in 1988.
To ensure safe and clean drinking water to high standards and quality, water is subject to daily random bacteriological and laboratory tests undertaken by Kahramaa. Samples are collected and tested from the storage reservoirs and networks up to the customers' storage facilities.
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