SEC achieves technical, financial targets with own engineers
A technical report revealed that Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has succeeded in realizing a number of technical and financial achievements during the first quarter of this year, with the ability of company experts and engineers to achieve a 16.6 percent increase in power generation compared to planned targets. SEC also converted 17 percent of the diesel fuel generation units to use light fuel and implementing maintenance projects and programs at a number of plants without needing a help from foreign companies or local contracting companies.
The report said the company managed to improve efficiency of the generation units by the end of the first quarter of this year by 3 percent and by 35.6 percent during the first three months of this year compared to 34.5 percent during the same period of 2016. Meanwhile the technical staff were able to make 17 percent of the total diesel generation units to use the light fuel, thereby reducing diesel consumption by 31.8 percent compared to the first quarter of last year.
It pointed out that the SEC’s strategy of relying on the company’s engineers and technicians to implement the technical projects and maintenance programs in many plants such Alqurayyah Combined Power Plant and Tabuk and Ghazlan Plant and other plants that have contributed to reducing assignment of these projects to foreign companies. It also contributed to improving performance of generation units and saving the company millions of riyals at about 48 plants in all regions of the Kingdom, with many of these plants managed and operated by highly qualified national cadres, noting that the national cadres, including engineers and technicians represent around 85 percent of the staff of some plants such as Alqurayyah Combined Power Plant which is reckoned one of the most efficient plants worldwide.
Executive Vice President for Generation Eng’r. Khalid bin Abdulrahman Al-Tuaimi said that specialized technical teams have managed to convert a number of generation units at Tabuk 2 Plant from using diesel to crude fuel. The company engineers have also implemented a project for installing and operating a number of technical systems for mobile units of Rafha plant, in addition to making use of spare parts at the company’s warehouses, modifying them to conduct maintenance works for many plants such as Ghazlan Plant, without the need to import new parts.