Is it safe to say that we are not good at “rationalizing” everything? Am I generalizing? <I think I can generalize in this aspect, which is the “waste” that we practice in our daily lives, from food, food, energy, personal expenses and others. Today I will put in your hands figures from specialists and not from me, in an interview with Engineer Osama Al-Benyan, Chief Operating Officer at Zamil Industrial Investment Company.

<He says: ”70% of buildings in the Kingdom without insulation” and adds ”Saudis consume three times the global average for electricity” and this rise and growth in consumption means that we expect, as Engineer Osama adds, ”90 MW within 10 years and this will cost 500 billion riyals” and when thermal insulation is applied in the Kingdom, as Engineer Osama emphasizes, ”it will reduce bills by two billion riyals and save the economy 7 billion riyals”. This is a simple and simplified summary of electricity in the Kingdom, which we seek not to be faltering and not always interrupted.

<The efforts of the Ministry of Commerce regarding the application of Saudi standards and specifications on air conditioners, which is excellent and positive, and we noticed a great movement and re-export is done in hundreds of thousands and this will save a lot of energy and quality of devices and others, but we can also contribute more in saving energy through the application of thermal insulation Thermal insulation for residential or other buildings, and here is the role of the Ministry of Municipalities and Secretariats to apply thermal insulation in homes, which is not applied now 100%, which means continued waste, and this forces us to oblige and force everyone who wants to build with thermal insulation in order to save energy and stop the huge waste that is done without limits due to the cheapness of our electrical energy. This supports the role of the Ministry of Commerce, which prevents and penalizes those who import devices that do not save energy or are not according to specifications.

The role of the secretariats is huge. <The role of the secretariats is large, important and decisive, and they must work on it without exception. <It is important that we change and work to change the image and pattern of our consumption, the nature of waste and the nature of not paying attention to details ”thermal insulation - non-conforming device - a device that exceeds the need” that we waste money and energy with this irrational consumption behavior and this now costs the state annually 150 billion, in one way or another, and this is a large number that can be used for other developmental affairs that provide But it now goes to electricity through consumer waste and not through industrial product and production, especially since our electrical energy has most of the costly waste from residential, which constitutes 50% of it. We must completely reconsider this, otherwise we will reach levels that cannot continue to support with this large and huge unjustified growth.
** Writer Rashid Al-Fouzan
Riyadh Newspaper