Saudi Arabia offers a tempting offer to Iraq with the electricity file
Saudi Arabia offers a tempting offer to Iraq with the electricity file
2018/7/30 15:24
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published by the agency “Bloomberg” The US, on Monday, a report revealed in which a Saudi offer includes the construction of solar power plant to sell electricity to Iraq at a price much lower than the price, which buys Baghdad electricity from Iran.
The agency quoted the official spokesman of the Ministry of Electricity Musab teacher as saying today that the deal, which was not approved by the Baghdad so far, including plant construction in the Kingdom during the year of the signing of the agreement produces 3,000 megawatts to supply Iraq with it. ”
He said the teacher that” Iraq is under this The deal will buy electricity at $ 21 per megawatt-hour, a quarter of what Iraq pays for electricity supplies from Iran. ”
Protests erupted in Iraq a month ago, angrily driven by poor service delivery to citizens, including water and electric power, The accumulation of its debts on Baghdad, the supply of the
Iraq imports electricity from Iran to cover part of the country’s energy shortages for years, with energy infrastructure being destroyed and destroyed by decades of war and siege.
The Prime Minister Haider Abadi, on Sunday, an order to withdraw the hand of Minister of Electricity Qassim Fahdawi.
The newspaper [New Arab] Qatar, a report on the background of the reasons for the withdrawal of the Minister of Electricity from the ministry until the completion of investigations.
The newspaper’s report said that the withdrawal of Fahdawi’s hand came after he entered into a verbal exchange with Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Erj Musjidi, because Iran cut off electricity from Iraq and caused protests in the southern provinces.
He pointed out that Abadi considered that the Minister of Electricity exceeded his powers in seeking to agree with Gulf countries on the supply of electricity to Iraq and the Iranian ambassador’s displeasure of his behavior, “according to the report
The Ministry of Electricity denied what the Qatari journalist said as” fabricated reports related to linking political matters to the decision to withdraw the hand Minister of Electricity “, stressing that” what was published is absolutely untrue. ”
alliraqnews.com
