Doha: Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) will launch this month an SMS service to inform subscribers in the residential sector about their monthly consumption of electricity and water and the amount of the bill.
Kahramaa said in a statement issued on Sunday that the service comes within the initiative ‘be a partner in rationalisation’, to notify the subscribers about their actual monthly consumption rate.
The aim of the SMS service is to raise awareness about the consumption of water and electricity and the importance of conserving resources which is part of the National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency “Tarsheed” “rationalisation”.
This is to alert consumers when they exceed the level of the optimal rate of rationalisation, in order to achieve the goal of the programme to reduce the consumption of electricity and water per capita to the optimum consumption rate and help the subscribers and encourage them to become a partner in the Tarsheed initiative.
Kahramaa launched the initiative of be Partner of Tarsheed in the summer of 2016 by sending text messages to educate consumers about the consumption pattern and encourage them to reduce waste of resources and avoid the increase of the bill.
In the campaign, which received a positive response from the public, Kahramaa sends a monthly message to the consumers about the consumption rate in addition to alerting them not exceed the ideal rate. This is to help subscribers control the monthly consumption of electricity and water to the optimum consumption rate.
Kahramaa invited subscribers to register with the corporation and update their data through its website (km.qa) and the smartphone application to benefit from the SMS service.
In accordance with a detailed study of the National Program for rationalisation and energy efficiency, “rationalisation” of the actual consumption patterns of all segments of the residential sector has been determined by the average rate of moderate consumption for each category.
The company said it has registered 25,000 warnings and violations against the offenders of the provisions of the law of rationalisation No. 20/2015 since its enforcement two years ago.
The corporation has also taken legal proceedings against those who have proved that they wasted electricity or water and refused to reconcile and pay the fines imposed.
Offenders have a chance to reconcile and pay 50 percent of the fine.
According to the law, the fines imposed are QR15,000 for water and QR10,000 for electricity.
Tarsheed programme target for the next five years is to reduce per capita consumption of electricity to seven percent and a total of 25 percent over 10 years and 15 percent for water consumption and by 35 percent over 10 years by 2022.
