Qatar District Cooling Company (Qatar Cool) recently signed a service agreement with Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company (QIMC) for the latter’s tower at West Bay.
The deal includes the provision for district cooling services with a capacity of 3,650 tonnes of refrigeration (TR) along with regular maintenance to onsite equipment, water pumps and other related services to cover 120,000sq m of tower space.
QIMC chief executive officer Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah al-Ansari said, “We made an informed decision to opt for district cooling for our new tower in West Bay based on the various benefits it offers over conventional cooling methods. District cooling not only helps us reduce construction and maintenance costs, but also serves the environment by reducing the energy required to cool our tower by 40%-45%, thus reducing CO2 emissions; that, in turn, supports the environmental pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030.”
Qatar Cool CEO Yasser Salah al-Jaidah expressed his appreciation to partner with QIMC and said, “District cooling offers tower owners and developers a variety of benefits in the long run; reduced construction and maintenance costs and more leasable space are principal among them. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer such economical and environmentally-friendly cooling service to our partners in Qatar.
“The cooling energy used over the past six years has saved over 1bn kilo watts of electricity, which translates to reducing over 600mn kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere, this is equivalent to the environmental effect of removing 120000 cars off the roads.”
District cooling is far superior to other conventional cooling methods as it is more efficient, economical and environmentally friendly, which serves Qatar’s rising cooling demands, according to a statement.  Over the past 10 years, Qatar Cool focused its efforts on using the best district cooling technologies to cover the cooling demands in the West Bay and the Pearl-Qatar districts, where it pumps over 197,000TR in both districts combined, it said.
The numbers indicate tremendous growth in the company’s operations over the past years. The cooling capacity of both operational plants in the West Bay district has been completely sold out; this prompted Qatar Cool to start constructing a new cooling plant with a capacity of 40,000TR to satisfy the overwhelming demand for district cooling services in the region. The new plant is scheduled to become operational in 2017.