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Kuwait resorts to power cuts amid scorching heat wave


ALBAWABA - Kuwait has confirmed that it is having difficulty meeting the spike in demand that has been caused by the excessive heat of summer, according

ALBAWABA - Kuwait has confirmed that it is having difficulty meeting the spike in demand that has been caused by the excessive heat of summer, according to AFP, resulting the government to declare that it would be temporarily cutting electricity in some areas of the country throughout peak consumption hours. Nadim Farajalla, chief sustainability officer at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, has stated according to Bloomberg that “it’s not only for Kuwait, it’s the entire region that is going to be suffering from this,” adding that “The length of heat waves is growing.” While scorching summer heat is nothing new to Kuwait, the whole Middle East is experiencing extreme heatwaves, as shown by the hundreds of heat-related fatalities that have been recorded during Saudi Arabia's annual Hajj pilgrimage and Egypt's acute electricity shortages.

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