Iraq will produce double the electricity coming from Jordan and 2% of Iranian gas!
Iraq will produce double the electricity coming from Jordan and 2% of Iranian gas!
02-15-2024
Iraq is expected to begin next month the first experiment in producing electricity from waste, using three thousand tons of waste daily in the capital, Baghdad, to produce energy equivalent to twice the amount that will reach Iraq from Jordan, as well as covering 2% of Iranian gas.
Assistant Director General of the Department of Environment and Solid Waste in the Baghdad Municipality, Karim Azab, explained that the beginning of next March will witness the selection of the investing company to begin implementing the project, especially since the Municipality has identified the Al-Nahrawan area on the Rusafa side as the place for its implementation, provided that the landfill site is designed according to international environmental specifications and standards. According to the government newspaper Al-Sabah.
He stressed that the project, which will take 24 months to implement, will contribute to saving 80 to 90 megawatts, by investing 3,000 tons of waste daily.
He stated that the Municipality of the Capital is planning a similar project on the Karkh side in the Abu Ghraib region, to be declared an investment opportunity after the completion of the expropriation of the lands on which it will be implemented, noting that the Municipality is working to invest about 6 thousand tons of waste daily through the two aforementioned projects.
The 6,000 tons are equivalent to about 50% of the waste that Baghdad throws away daily alone. As for the electricity that will be produced from the project in Nahrawan, amounting to 80 to 90 megawatts, this amount is equivalent to double the amount of electricity that will come from Jordan to Iraq within the electrical connection for the first stage, amounting to 40. Megawatts, for which contracts were signed two days ago, and it is hoped that it will increase in the second phase to 150 and then 500 megawatts.
It is worth noting that 90 megawatts is also equivalent to 2% of the total electricity produced by Iraq based on Iranian gas.
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