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SEC borrows generators to solve outage crisis

by CW Staff on Jun 30, 2009

Power outages have become commonplace in Jeddah and the Qassim region.

The Saudi Electric Company (SEC) has signed a deal to bring 100 extra megawatts of power to the Kingdom to solve the electricity shortages that blight its economy over the summer months.

The contract with UK firm Aggreko will boost SEC’s capability to more than 170 megawatts in total over the next three months.

Outages have become commonplace in Jeddah and the Qassim region, north of Riyadh, where local groups have threatened to take legal action against the Saudi utility, according to the Arab News daily.

A Jeddah official last week stated that power outages hit Jeddah around 14 times a month on average, and added that the total losses suffered by the 460 factories in the industrial hub city would be severe.

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