Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA) celebrated the third anniversary of its ongoing National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed) here at Sheraton Doha under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of the Qatar with the slogan “Tarsheed: Time Is Now ’’.
The grand celebration was supported and guided by the Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Minister of Energy and Industry, HE Dr. Mohamed Bin Saleh Al Sada, KAHRAMAA’s president, HE Eng. Essa Bin Hilal Al- Kuwari, dignitaries, diplomats, high level officials from Government and private sectors, Media professionals, senior functionaries of KAHRAMAA, Environment- champions, school children and others.
Through the celebration, KAHRAMAA announced its future strategies, projects and achieved targets for the ongoing massive program. KAHRAMAA, through Tarsheed, aims at rationalizing the consumption of water and electricity and intensifying the culture of conservation of vital resources in Qatar. In addition to it, KAHRAMAA at this grand occasion, also felicitated those winners (individual and corporate) who have been selected under various categories for their entries sought for a number of competitions being organized by KAHRAMAA’s Conservation and Energy Efficiency department.
The prime target of the Tarsheed is to reduce the per capita water and electricity consumption in Qatar by 35% & 20%, respectively until 2017. The per capita consumption of water and electricity of Qatar is one of the highest in the world.
Since inception, Tarsheed managed to reduce per capita consumption of electricity by 11% and water by 11% to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.8 million tons, Gas by 43.000 million cubic feet, and QR 600 millions till end of 2014.
KAHRAMAA felicitated winners of the recently held contests including the short story contest for schools, Advertisement design for universities, as well as conservation building competition, for best buildings in industrial, commercial, governmental, sports, tourism, and residential sectors. Buildings are evaluated based on the specific parameters set by the team of qualified experts. Winners are:
Government sector
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The new of the Emiri Diwan Annex – Musheireb Real Estate. |
Industrial
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District Cooling Factory -
Musheireb Real Estate. |
Sports |
Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena - |
Commercial
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Arkan building, Lebriqa Real Estate Company, one of Al Diyar Real Estate Companies. |
Residential |
Mr. Ali Al Safran |
Tourism Sector |
QNCC - Amlak Holding Company |
Best renewable energy and energy efficiency initiative
Corporations |
Al-Wakra beach for families – for using solar energy to operate LED lights |
Persons |
Ahmed Hamad Al-Badi Al-Maadeed, owner of Enviro Company for global projects for the geo wash (washing cars without wasting water) |
Universities contest for Best TV commercial, winners are
First place |
Mairna Ammar, HBKU - QF |
Second palce |
Nesma Sherif, QU |
Best AD, winners are
First place |
Khedr Ibrahim Sulaiman, QU |
Second palce |
Omar Ahmed Lotfi, QU |
Third Place |
Sara Abdulla Al-Mutawa, HBKU - QF |
Short story contest for schools:
Preliminary |
Hala Meheid Ibrahim, Al-Shaqb Independent School |
Preparatory |
Nasser Mansour Abo Keshk, Al-Imam Al-Shafie Independent School |
Secondary |
Naiemuddin Muenuddin, Tarki bin Ziyad Secondary School |
KAHRAMAA has also felicitated corporations for their support to Tarsheed since inception through signing MoUs, social support, scientific and research participation including Ezdan Holding, Qatar Tourism Authority, Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, Gardens Department, Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Unilever company, ConocoPhilips, DFI, Qatar Debate, and Iberdrola Company.
The Tarsheed program is marching towards achieving good result and public response. For creative conservation, the Conservation and Energy Efficiency department (Tarsheed) of KAHRAMAA has been organizing various competitions throughout the year to engage all communities to get creative about conservation. It invites entries for Conserving Building Competition, Film making competition, Best Ads design and video competition for students and Best Renewable Energy Initiative Competition
