AHMED KHALEEL ALSOWAYNA

Determine key improvement levers in related sectors including LPG sector to propose and facilitate initiatives such as energy audits, operational excellence, efficiency improvements, and entity (regulators and companies) compliance.

• Led readiness coordination with authorities to align technical and control systems reforms.
• Follow and improve system functionality (CRM, e Applications) to enhance the services for customers and to support digital transformation.
• Activate and manage a daily operations room to streamline cross-sector alignment and reform execution.
• Followed up on control plan readiness pre- and post-reform, identifying gaps and challenges to support continuity and effective implementation of the energy mix and liquids displacement program (50% gas, 50% renewable energy).
• Conducted billing system simulations to ensure post-reform accuracy and operational integrity.
• Directed contingency planning impact assessments to safeguard service continuity and infrastructure resilience.
• Member of the behavioral economics project, contributing to a study that achieved a 2% reduction in user consumption behavior.
• Participated in the evaluation of the Demand Side Management (DSM) initiative, aiming to optimize national energy usage.
• Contributed to the deployment of over 10 million electricity smart meters across the Kingdom in 2020.
• Supported the Actual Beneficiary Meter Identification Initiative, helping to register over 5 million electricity and water meters, with a target of identifying 10M electricity meters and 2M water meters.
• Launched 8 new customer experience services through the Electricity App, improving billing transparency and enabling real-time consumption monitoring.
• Proposed and supported implementation of mitigation programs such as Fixed Bill Plans, installment schemes, and partial bill payments to ease customer burden.
• Contributed to the launch of reduced the electricity tariffs for high-consumption users in the industrial, agricultural, and commercial sectors; followed up on annual applications, ensuring eligibility and tariff compliance.
• Member in 28 regulatory working groups, reviewing technical manuals and frameworks issued by the Authority.
• Led the implementation and validation of LPG, electricity and the government water tariff, ensuring proper application, billing accuracy, and readiness of both service providers and regulators.
• Member of the Electricity, Water, and Liquid Fuel Gas Regulatory Teams, contributing to the update of regulatory guidelines and governance frameworks.
• Participated in updating the Guaranteed Service Level Standards Guide to incentivize better electricity service delivery from providers and ensure automated customer compensation without complaint submission.

• Member of Ministry of Energy reliability and resiliency power system studies group
• Manage and follow up Power Plant Generators, Transmission, and Fuel Pipelines Maintenance outages. Including GCC line maintenance
• Perform studies and reports related to impact of outages on energy production cost
• Performing economic studies using a simulation models.
• Introducing new technologies and method to the work field.
• Member and representative of preparing and approving the PPA and EIA Committee, supervising the PPA committee, which is responsible of revise and amend all PPA agreements. representative of operations and control business line at EIA committee which is responsible of revise and amend of all new electrical connection with SEC Network.

Energy Trading Management (with GCCIA) and Economic Engineering (planning & dispatching) as Senior Power Transmission Engineer.

Using PROMOD optimization tool, we perform year ahead energy allocation for medium term horizon to Optimize the energy for each generating units considering all network constraints, Fuel Quota, Generation outage scheduling, Transmission outage scheduling, Pipe line maintenance and ancillary services. Also, day ahead plan for short term horizon consider all constraints for mentioned, short term forecasting and current MMR of system.

Decision making for bilateral trading market with others GCCIA members, studying the best period of trading by analyzing the cost benefit ratio and opportunity cost.

Initiative manager of reducing diffraction in the energy plan (with 40 Million SR saving)

SEC and NG speaker and presenter in the "Impact of COVID 19 on Utility Sectors" webinar held on the 15th of July 2020 organized by GCCLAB.

Outage Maintenance Management, Electrical Load Forecast and Load Management

Annual outage management scheduling for all generating units depending on the load forecast of coming year, force outage rate, reserve margin and system security. Also, forecast application for medium term and short term depending on historical data and weather factors and special events