So we all are amazed how come a country like Kuwait with millions pouring in from oil can have blackouts due to electricity shortages, The time magazines even wrote an article how Kuwait is going to be in the dark this summer. I really do not know why we have an electricity shortage or who exactly is stealing the country:p (sounds like the Kuwaiti version of the Enron story) but would like to comment on how stupid this”controlled blackout”is, lets say the ministry of idiots, sorry meant electricity made a certain program to monitor the consumption of residential homes in Kuwait, and separated into each area, then they start promoting there lame advertising about conserving electricity. So monitoring starts on all houses around each area, and a list is created with the best homes that are conserving electricity. This list goes to the newspaper with the family name that is best conserving electricity and as a benefit no electicity is cut through out the summer time for that house hold, and offcource the most house using electricity has to be posted too as the highest waster of them all (sure its a guy from the Kuwait Municipality), so when the owner of the house (the guy from the Municipality) goes to the co-op to by something, everybody there will give him a mean electrifying look:P So instead of this Tarsheed lame advertising, they should promote such programmes that rewards a house hold owner to keep the electricity consumption down, init! so what do you folks think, would a program like this work around here.
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June 18th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Do Bahrain, UAE, Qatar or Saudi Arabia have a similar problem with electricity during the summer? I can imagine providing enough electricity to Dubai alone, nevermind the entire country of UAE, is more than Kuwait uses to power the entire country. Something isn’t right.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:40 am
I don’t know why all the complications in finding a solution for this problem. The solution is really simple. In Kuwait, consumers pay less than 5% of the actual cost of electricity and water, The rest is paid by the government. Make consumers pay 100% of the cost, and you will see a drop in electricity and water consumption immediately. Hit them where it hurts, those excessive Kuwaities, in their pockets!
June 18th, 2007 at 10:43 am
and who will pay for the cases brought before the courts for deformation ? what you are calling for is a clear cut case of deformation and an extra 5000 kd waiting for be collected to anyone whos name is published as bad waster
June 18th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I liked your proposal at the end…it definitely makes sense. My friend is a big supporter of this “cut”, he thinks that Kuwaitis “ma woon el’la bel 3een el 7amrah.” LOL
June 18th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Stinni: yah something is wrong, bad as management but nobody ever gets the blame!!
Anonymous Coward: that is the best solution, same thing happened a while ago when traffic tricket fines jacked up people started repecting the law, this should happen too, but someone has to be blamed for the electricty shortages not being anticipaited.
forzaq8: did not really get your point about deformation man sorry.
Angelo: yah thanks
June 20th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Someone explained to me but I’m a bit hazy on the details so bear with me. My understanding is that there’s this equipment that needs to be rehauled or changed completely but instead they put temporary solutions to make the “wi7da” last longer. Why? Becaue if they change the “wi7da” then they’d have to stop electricity altogther so instead they chose to put a temporary solution while they build a whole new “wi7da” to cater to the rising number of consumers. I think they did build a new “wi7da” but it’s still not keeping up with the population. Why? Apparently it’s relatively easy to assess the trend of Kuwaiti people increasing but not easy to gage how many non-Kuwaitis are going to increase. Hence planning and projections go off-mark.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
1001 Nights: thats a point i have not heard from before, but sounds officail, but still does not excuse them from correct planning, which as its shows they know nothing about.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
first it was water cuts, and now Kuwait is too poor to pay it’s own electricity bill LOL wala maskhara.
i guess a certain someone is too busy stealing 40 million KD per year more than he needs to care about his own country and he is taking it to hell with him.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pm
holla: lol true
July 1st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Power outages due to bad management.
The newest power station we have islike over 20 years old. We were warned by people like saadoon ten years ago that this would happen.. and yet no new power stations were built. Kuwait gov only thinks about today, never about tomorrow.
One word comes to my mind about the whole situation.. “IHMAAL”.
DUBAI ARE CONSTANTLY BUILDING NEW POWER STATIONS.. AND NOW THINKING ABOUT BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS… THE MIND BOGGLES WHEN I SEE THE COMPARISON.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Good discussion..why are we considered to have the strongest econcomies in the world yet so behind in many sections. Providing electricity shouldn’t take more than a year to try and solve…but with no planning, corruption and tribal influence we will always behind….that is the Kuwaiti way! Giving problems but no solution…too much waste of time.