The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announces a plan to add 50,000 megawatts
The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announces a plan to add 50,000 megawatts
2021.10.23 – 08:52
Baghdad – people
The Ministry of Electricity revealed a five-year plan with short, medium and long terms to reach approximately 50,000 megawatts, while asking the government to provide its share of the budget.
The official spokesman for the ministry, Ahmed Musa al-Abadi, said in a statement to the official newspaper, followed by “Nass” (October 23, 2021), that “the ministry is working to add between 5 to 6 thousand megawatts in the next year in the near term, according to the plan, and to establish lines Transfer of major energy and work to strengthen the distribution networks that keep pace with the demand for energy.
And he indicated that “the ministry calls on the government to provide investment sums for the construction of power stations and new infrastructure,” noting that “the ministry has prepared a five-year plan with medium-terms to add 12,000 megawatts and a long-term up to nearly 50,000 megawatts.”
He added that “the ministry is proceeding with clean energy projects and electrical interconnection and is proceeding with preparing an integrated study on electronic collection,” noting that “the ministry is proceeding with government decisions regarding clean energy to provide electric power of 7.5 thousand megawatts.”
And he indicated that “the ministry has actually contracted to provide clean energy with a volume of 3.2 megawatts, independently of (Power China),” calling on the government to “provide the ministry with the amounts of budgets approved by the budget in favor of the ministry, and so far the ministry is suffering from not launching its own allocations, and it is one of the joints.” vital and important, and sufficient funds should be released to them.”
He explained that “the solar energy projects that the ministry intends to rely on to provide clean and sustainable energy will not cost the state large sums, knowing that the ministry has signed an agreement with companies based on energy investment ,” noting that “the ministry asked the government, through the 2021 budget, to provide sums of money. It amounts to 22 billion dollars, which was reduced by the House of Representatives to 10 billion dollars, of which nearly one billion dollars were deducted for the benefit of health and the interior, and other than that, the ministry did not receive its full share of the value of the investment budget for the benefit of the Ministry of Electricity .”
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