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KUWAIT’S ELECTRICAL ENERGY

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Kuwait electrical energy

Introduction

Kuwait has for a longer period appeared on the world map for oil and energy production. With the country’s small population, it has been able to draw huge development revenues from the same. However, the world’s changing perception and environmental concerns have begun affecting the major economic source (Alhajeri, Dannoun, Alrashed & Aly, 2019). Kuwait currently has plans to develop the largest renewable energy which would serve as a major source of power and income for the country. This paper will provide a description of the Kuwait’s electrical energy production capacity, station types, ratings in regards to transmissions and distribution networks. The paper will further describe the annual load distribution and rates of outage in electrical energy.

Overall generation capacity

Kuwait has a capacity of 14.7% in total. This is based on the data collected by the World Bank in the year 2012. This represents 65140 (Trading economics, 2019). This was an improvement for the country to meet the high electricity consumption demand in the country. The high demand in the country has been fueled by the excessive subsidization of electricity which makes it the cheapest means of energy for use both commercially and domestic. According to Meed, (2019) Kuwait plans to increase its overall generation to 17GW producing 450 M of gallons in a single day. This will be able to meet the currently high demand of electricity in the country.

Generation station types and capacity

Thermal powered generation stations: in this type of stations power is generated by use of chemical reactions. The capacity of production in Kuwait’s thermal generation stands at 2400 MW which was an improvement by the launching of the Doha-West power station

Fossil fuel generating power stations: this is energy produced from the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity. The country’s capacity from fossil stations is 18.89 million KW. Kuwait majorly depends on fossil fuel in its energy production. However, the country is transforming towards renewable energy with a higher estimate in terms of capacity.

Renewable sources stations: Kuwait is turning towards the production of renewable energy. The total capacity for Kuwait is 0.002 GW. Despite the increasing capacity in the energy produced through renewable means, Kuwait is yet to shift towards the use of renewable energy. Statistics indicate that 0% of people living in Kuwait use renewable energy (Kuwait Total Installed Generation Capacity Gw. 2019).

Types of ratings of transmission networks

Main nodes besides major lines

Kuwait uses major nodes besides major lines in transmitting electricity. The nodes types represent the names while node types represent the city, a town or a country. The transmission lines are in terms of kV while types of lines are in terms of single, double among others. Nodes are used to connect the country’s electric grid to another neighboring country’s electrical grid (Kuwait - Electricity Transmission Network | Data Catalog, 2019). The nodes in diagrams or in writing are symbolized by points while the lines are symbolized by lines. The rating of the transmission network is 125 MVA.

Type and rating of distribution networks

Research shows that the country is largely dependent on A/C type of current. Kuwait for a long time has been using overhead connection in distributing electricity from one town and place to the other (Services, et al. 2019). Power stations used long circuit transmission lines in networking electricity to most parts. However, the demand for more power connection is bringing shifts in the electricity stations which have been attributed to the many changes in the sector. Services, et al. (2019) asserts that the negative perception and high demand for power has shifted the electricity transmission from the overhead, long-circuit transmissions to short-circuit connections. The transmission network is also transformed with the introduction of gas-insulated transmission networking. Here electricity in transmitted through gas-insulated lines from one place to the other. This type of transmission network has proved to be highly reliable and safer.

The rating of distribution networks in Kuwait is in kV. Power is transmitted both in high voltage and low voltage from the source to the transformer where it is further distributed to the consumers. All this power is estimated in kV.

Load distribution (yearly basis)

Kuwait has a large demand for electricity. The consumption has been growing and continuous to grow. The estimated load in a year as per the 2016 data is 18.89 Million kW (Middle East: Kuwait — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency, 2019).

Outage rates

60 outages in a single year: research indicates that Kuwait is among the highly dependent power with very minimal power outages (Electricity-Tariffs-Power-Outages-and-Firm-Performance.pdf. 2019).

Conclusion

Kuwait is one of the largest world producers of energy. Through its large deposits of natural gas and fuels, the country produces energy at lower costs thus making the use of electricity much lower. Using main node and major lines, the country has been able to transmit its power efficiently through short-circuits to its consumers. Kuwait has one of the lowest power outage rates in the world. Through its transformation and embracing of the renewable energy, the power production will go high and wastage cost experienced through the current sources of power can be eliminated.

References

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Electricity-Tariffs-Power-Outages-and-Firm-Performance.pdf. (2019). Retrieved 8 November 2019, from http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/444681490076354657/Electricity-Tariffs- Power-Outages-and-Firm-Performance.pdf

Kuwait - Electricity Transmission Network | Data Catalog. (2019). Retrieved 8 November 2019, from https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/kuwait-electricity-transmission-network- 2017

Kuwait Total Installed Generation Capacity Gw. (2019). Retrieved 8 November 2019, from https://tradingeconomics.com/kuwait/total-installed-generation-capacity-gw-wb- data.html

Meed. (2019, April 18). Kuwait moves on power projects. Retrieved November 8, 2019, from https://www.power-technology.com/comment/kuwait-power-projects/.

Middle East :: Kuwait — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. (2019). Retrieved 8 November 2019, from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world- factbook/geos/print_ku.html

Services, P., Solutions, M., technology, B., Technology, D., Automation, I., & Products, C. et al. (2019). Gas-insulated transmission lines | Power transmission lines | Siemens. Retrieved 8 November 2019, from https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/energy/high-voltage/power- transmission-lines/gas-insulated-lines.html

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