Electricity reveals its production of energy and imports from Syria
The Ministry of Electricity has begun the process of rehabilitating the link between Iraq and Syria to supply surplus energy to Iraq before the summer season, revealing the resumption of the Iranian side to meet the need of a number of gas generation plants, which contributed to the increase of production by 1500 MW.
“Iraq has agreed with Jordan to supply 300 megawatts before the summer season,” said ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudar in a press statement. “The link is through Syria because of an electrical connection between it and Jordan.”
“He pointed out that” Iraq has had an electrical connection with Syria, but this line was sabotaged by a terrorist called, “pointing to” directly to the owners to rehabilitate the vital line called the «existing 2}, and expected to” finalize the connection with Syria before Next summer season. ”
The teacher said that “the energy production in the country reached 11 thousand and 500 megawatts, the share of the capital, including three thousand and 500 megawatts, which can be the ministry of processing by 23 hours,” adding that “the staffing is currently undergoing regular maintenance of a large number of generating units With an estimated capacity of 4,000 MW. ”
And the supply of gas from Iran to operate a number of generating stations, he stressed, “the resumption of pumping gas on the basis of the need of Iraq at the current stage of 15 million cubic feet per day, which can produce 1500 MW of electricity, 12 million cubic feet per day through { Towards the province of Diyala, and three million standard cubic feet per day through the city of Basra, noting that the actual need of the country at the current stage.
The ministry spokesman said that “the price of these shipments depends on the price of the Gulf Exchange, explaining that Iraq is paying the amounts of these contracts in Iraqi dinars, indicating that the Iranian gas depends on each of the stations: Mansuriyah, which currently provides the system with 500 MW, , And Besmaya, which supplies 1500 MW, stressing that his ministry aims to be the energy processing next summer better than the previous.
In the same context, the Minister of Electricity Luay Khatib inaugurated the transformational power station of the upper threshold in the province of Najaf.
He said that his ministry started its journey to provide 24 hours of electricity throughout the country, praising the efforts that have been made to complete the transformational power station for the holy Alawite threshold, which will contribute to removing the bottlenecks in the electricity grid and providing services to the old city of Najaf, in addition to the upper threshold.
Source: Alforatnews.com