Solar Heating

Since there is not much about Kuwait's capability of using solar energy we are going to make some assumptions from Mckay's book. We are going to make the assumption that households are approximately the same size in the UK and Kuwait. Mckay assumes that each person has 10 m^2 of roofing to put solar panels on for heating. Since the average household size in the UK is much less than in Kuwait we need to account for this. We take the 2.3 average household size for UK and an average of about 8 for Kuwait [2][3]. Also there is a difference in the average size of the house. The UK's average house size is 91 square meters while Kuwait's average house size is about 185.8 square meters [4][5]. We can use these comparisons for a good average for amount of solar panels per person for heating. This gives us about 5.87 m^2 per person.

If we take this number and multiply it by 275 W/m^2, that is found from the map above, we get 38.16 kWh/day per person.


[1]  Mckay's Book
[2]  http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/downloads/40house/chapter03.pdf
[3]  http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/family/Publications/mtelhaddad.pdf
[4]  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_UK_house_size
[5]  http://housing.justlanded.com/en/Kuwait/For-Sale/3