Kahramaa Smart Meters: Every Electricity Meter in Qatar Replaced
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Kahramaa has swapped every electricity meter in Qatar for a smart one, and half the water meters. The gain it reports is exact billing; its water-loss cut came from leak-hunting tools.
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Kahramaa, the state utility that supplies electricity and water to every consumer in Qatar, Doha included, began building its advanced metering infrastructure in 2020: a QR30mn smart platform from Siemens, with Vodafone IoT SIMs carrying the readings. The utility itself dates the project's launch to 2021. The target grew from 600,000 meters to replacing every conventional meter in the country; by July 2025 all electricity meters and half of the water meters had been replaced, with full water coverage planned for the end of 2027. Readings flow automatically into billing, customers follow consumption in real time and can prepay, supply is restored remotely after payment, and control centres use the data to detect violations — Kahramaa presents it as support for Tarsheed, its national conservation programme.
📊 Impact
Every figure is Kahramaa's own: over 300,000 meters by March 2023, more than 988,000 by mid-2025 (over 528,000 electricity and 460,000 water), and a billing and meter-reading accuracy it put at 97 percent. A ten-year contract with Ooredoo worth QR 75,548,400 added a separate network for the water meters, meant to feed billing and loss data. No figure in these reports ties the meters to lower consumption or to water loss: when Kahramaa reported real losses below 18 percent in 2023, it credited smart-ball and helium leak detection on the pipes. Some bills rose when estimates gave way to actual readings, and in June 2026 Shura Council members still pressed for greater billing and meter-reading accuracy.
🎓 Lesson
What Kahramaa reports from its meters is administrative — exact bills, remote reconnection, accounts opened and transferred online — while the network gain it claims for water came from separate leak-hunting tools. A meter rollout makes a utility's billing exact before it makes its network efficient; the second needs a measurement of its own.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2020. 11 of 11 sources carry a publication date, from 12 April 2020 to 9 June 2026.
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- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, on the Siemens AMI project (12 April 2020) (media)
- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, on the Kahramaa–Vodafone IoT agreement (2 November 2020) (media)
- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, on bills and smart meters (22 November 2021) (media)
- The Peninsula · pressThe Peninsula, on 280,000 smart meters (3 January 2023) (media)
- The Peninsula · pressThe Peninsula, on the 600,000-meter target (11 March 2023) (media)
- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, on the Kahramaa–Ooredoo water-meter network (2 October 2023) (media)
- The Peninsula · pressThe Peninsula, on water losses in 2023 (31 December 2023) (media)
- Smart Water Magazine · pressSmart Water Magazine, on 988,000 meters (July 2025) (media)
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- The Peninsula · pressThe Peninsula, on completion of smart electricity meters (13 July 2025) (media)
- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, Kahramaa's review of 2025 (23 February 2026) (media)
- Gulf Times · pressGulf Times, Shura Council reviews Kahramaa plans (9 June 2026) (media)
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the state utility that supplies electricity and water to every consumer in Qatar
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began building its advanced metering infrastructure in 2020: a QR30mn smart platform from Siemens, with Vodafone IoT SIMs carrying the readings
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The utility itself dates the project's launch to 2021.
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The target grew from 600,000 meters to replacing every conventional meter in the country
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by July 2025 all electricity meters and half of the water meters had been replaced, with full water coverage planned for the end of 2027
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Readings flow automatically into billing, customers follow consumption in real time and can prepay, supply is restored remotely after payment, and control centres use the data to detect violations
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Kahramaa presents it as support for Tarsheed, its national conservation programme
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over 300,000 meters by March 2023
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more than 988,000 by mid-2025 (over 528,000 electricity and 460,000 water)
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a billing and meter-reading accuracy it put at 97 percent
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A ten-year contract with Ooredoo worth QR 75,548,400 added a separate network for the water meters, meant to feed billing and loss data.
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when Kahramaa reported real losses below 18 percent in 2023, it credited smart-ball and helium leak detection on the pipes
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No figure in these reports ties the meters to lower consumption or to water loss
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Some bills rose when estimates gave way to actual readings
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in June 2026 Shura Council members still pressed for greater billing and meter-reading accuracy
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What Kahramaa reports from its meters is administrative — exact bills, remote reconnection, accounts opened and transferred online
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while the network gain it claims for water came from separate leak-hunting tools
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa); platform Siemens, connectivity Vodafone Qatar and Ooredoo
- Actor types
- utility, private
- Funding model
- utility
- Funding description
- State utility budget (Kahramaa)
- Cost
- QR30mn AMI platform (Siemens, 2020); QR 75,548,400 over ten years for the water-meter network (Ooredoo, 2023); total programme cost not public
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
- Exit conditions
- Not recorded
11 source dossiers
Gulf Times, on the Siemens AMI project (12 April 2020) (media)
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- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2020-04-12
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- Not recorded
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- Record last verified
- 2026-10-04
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- 2026-10-04
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Reports that Kahramaa 'has started implementing the Advanced Metering Infrastructure project in co-operation with German company Siemens': a smart platform for electricity and water meters with remote monitoring and reading, a QR30mn project of nine months, a first phase of 50,000 to 60,000 meters, automatic billing, prepayment, identification of violations, integration with the Oracle customer and billing system, and support for the goals of the Tarsheed conservation programme.
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Gulf Times, on the Kahramaa–Vodafone IoT agreement (2 November 2020) (media)
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- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2020-11-02
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- 2026-10-04
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Following a pilot, Kahramaa and Vodafone Qatar agreed that 600,000 smart meters in homes and companies across the country would carry Vodafone IoT SIMs transmitting readings to Kahramaa's systems; named benefits are the end of manual readings, timelier bills and remote connection or disconnection.
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Gulf Times, on bills and smart meters (22 November 2021) (media)
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- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2021-11-22
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- 2026-10-04
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Kahramaa states the tariff has not changed and that a relative increase in some bills 'may be due to recording accurate actual readings of consumption and the absence of the need to rely on approximate estimates'; restates the 600,000-meter plan with Vodafone and Siemens.
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The Peninsula, on 280,000 smart meters (3 January 2023) (media)
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- Name not classified · thepeninsulaqatar.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2023-01-03
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- 2026-10-04
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Kahramaa reports 280,000 smart electricity and water meters installed against a target of 600,000, and says the meters support the objectives of the National Programme for Conservation and Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed).
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The Peninsula, on the 600,000-meter target (11 March 2023) (media)
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- Name not classified · thepeninsulaqatar.com
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- 2023-03-11
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- 2026-10-04
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A Kahramaa IT official says the project was launched in 2021, over 300,000 of a 600,000 target were installed, power is restored remotely about five minutes after payment, and billing and meter-reading accuracy reached 97 percent.
Gulf Times, on the Kahramaa–Ooredoo water-meter network (2 October 2023) (media)
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src-113960740b86e997- Publisher
- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2023-10-02
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- 2026-10-04
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Kahramaa signs a QR 75,548,400, ten-year contract with Ooredoo to deploy a communications network for smart water meters, to supply data on billing, network enhancement and losses.
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The Peninsula, on water losses in 2023 (31 December 2023) (media)
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- Name not classified · thepeninsulaqatar.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2023-12-31
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- 2026-10-04
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The head of Kahramaa's Water Control Center says real water losses fell below 18 percent in 2023, crediting technologies 'such as smart ball and helium gas for detecting underground invisible leakages'. Smart meters are not mentioned.
Smart Water Magazine, on 988,000 meters (July 2025) (media)
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- Name not classified · smartwatermagazine.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-07-07
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Relaying figures from Kahramaa's social media via Zawya: more than 988,000 smart meters by mid-2025, over 528,000 electricity and 460,000 water, full electricity deployment planned by end-2025 and water by end-2027.
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The Peninsula, on completion of smart electricity meters (13 July 2025) (media)
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- Name not classified · thepeninsulaqatar.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-07-13
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A Kahramaa smart-meter engineer says 100 percent of electricity meters have been replaced and 50 percent of water meters; the project covers 'every consumer in Qatar', water coverage is targeted for end-2027, customers track consumption in real time and pay online, and control centres use the meters to detect violations.
Gulf Times, Kahramaa's review of 2025 (23 February 2026) (media)
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- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-02-23
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- 2026-10-04
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QNA report of Kahramaa's statement on 2025: it 'expanded the deployment of smart meters, introducing almost 298,000 residential water meters within the AMI system'.
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Gulf Times, Shura Council reviews Kahramaa plans (9 June 2026) (media)
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- Name not classified · gulf-times.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-06-09
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- 2026-10-04
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At a Shura Council session the Kahramaa president reviewed the rollout of smart meters; members 'pressed for greater billing and meter-reading accuracy and better mechanisms for handling subscriber feedback'.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Kahramaa Smart Meters: Every Electricity Meter in Qatar Replaced” — Doha, Qatar. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/doha-kahramaa-smart-meters/ (last verified 2026-10-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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