Law & Regulation
Minister of State for Energy Affairs Decision No. 1 of 2025 Issuing the Implementing Regulation of Law No. 19 of 2024 on the Regulation of District Cooling Services
The Implementing Regulation supplies the detailed licensing, application, operational, metering, efficiency, customer-service and compliance rules through which KAHRAMAA administers the District Cooling Law.
Legal Significance
What This Instrument Does
It makes the statutory licensing regime operational, specifying application information, licence conditions, system and service requirements, measurement, resource use, records, reporting and regulatory intervention.
Why It Matters
A district-cooling project's technical and commercial model must be licensable in practice, not merely consistent with the parent Law in principle. Detailed rules affect design, water choice, energy transfer stations, customer metering, operating procedures and transaction timetable.
Key Provisions
- Licence application
Applicant, technical, financial and service information required for regulatory review.
- Provider and retailer licensing
Requirements adapted to different functions in the cooling supply chain.
- Licence conditions and renewal
Ongoing conditions, term administration and renewal procedure.
- System establishment and expansion
Approval controls for networks, plants and service-area changes.
- Technical design and efficiency
Standards and performance requirements, with technical detail in approved materials.
- Water-resource controls
Restrictions and efficiency principles affecting cooling-water choices.
- Metering and energy-transfer stations
Measurement equipment, accuracy and consumption-data architecture.
- Customer connection and service
Operational rules supporting reliable provision and transparent measurement.
- Operations, maintenance and continuity
Duties concerning safe, efficient and continuous service.
- Records and reporting
Information required by KAHRAMAA for supervision.
- Inspection and compliance
Regulatory access, testing and corrective directions.
- Modification, suspension and revocation
Procedures affecting licence scope or continued operation.
When You Would Use This
Licence applications
Preparing licence applications.
Provider/retailer role structuring
Structuring provider/retailer roles.
Plant/network interface design
Designing plant/network interfaces.
EPC performance criteria review
Reviewing EPC performance criteria.
O&M procedure drafting
Drafting O&M procedures.
Customer metering/billing architecture
Building customer metering/billing architecture.
Water and energy efficiency assessment
Assessing water and energy efficiency.
Lender technical/regulatory diligence
Completing lender technical/regulatory diligence.
InfraLex Relevance
The Regulation turns a new infrastructure statute into deliverable requirements. InfraLex should preserve the distinction between legally operative regulation, technical standards adopted under it and the commercial service documents that allocate project risk.
Legal Framework Position
- Sector RegulationImplementing Instrument
Primary / Parent Instrument
Instrument Overview
- Official Citation
- Minister of State for Energy Affairs Decision No. 1 of 2025
- Instrument Type
- Ministerial Decision / Order
- Source Language
- Arabic
- Enactment Date
- 24 February 2025
- Last Verified
- 4 September 2026