Oil Minister of Parliament: we need a strategy to address the power crisis plans and people are sowing consumption
Thursday, 30 July, 2015
BAGHDAD / Nina / Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the need for a strategy to resolve the power crisis in the medium and long term plans differ from the march of previous years.
Mahdi said in remarks to reporters after hosting today in the committees of integrity, oil and energy Alniabaten to discuss the crisis, the lack of electricity, “We must be frank and say that the power crisis a big problem, not small, not only the problem of money and fuel, but a big problem we need in the medium and long term to the strategy to address different from what used to be work done previously planned. ”
He criticized Abdul-Mahdi, increasing the number of stations without taking into account the nature of the location and availability of fuel type and processing and said it “is without regard to the burden of loading, adding,” We are losing 30% at the loading due to the existing National Grid included Abdul-Mahdi citizens responsible for the power crisis and said that there are other loss are as described (patterns of high consumption and wasteful in people’s homes) Because not to collect the wages of energy consumption.
and saw oil minister that “increase the power output by increasing the money without regulation by the consumption and distribution will be difficult to organize the overall production rate and that gap will widen each year automatically.”
He said the “energy production rate of 7000 MW but the actual need and reached to 15 000 MW, and when we produced more than 10 000 MW became demand 21 thousand and when production increase to 15 000 MW will increase demand to more than 30 thousand and thus widen the gap between supply and demand. ”
He pointed out that “it is possible to solve partially the problem but the citizen should help by reducing electricity consumption. ”
He acknowledged the oil minister that “the money that is provided for the electricity sector will affect other sectors because there is a security file is complex and the salaries of state employees and health services and water, there must be a reasonable balance could meet during the current and coming period “
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Thursday, 30 July, 2015
BAGHDAD / Nina / Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the need for a strategy to resolve the power crisis in the medium and long term plans differ from the march of previous years.
Mahdi said in remarks to reporters after hosting today in the committees of integrity, oil and energy Alniabaten to discuss the crisis, the lack of electricity, “We must be frank and say that the power crisis a big problem, not small, not only the problem of money and fuel, but a big problem we need in the medium and long term to the strategy to address different from what used to be work done previously planned. ”
He criticized Abdul-Mahdi, increasing the number of stations without taking into account the nature of the location and availability of fuel type and processing and said it “is without regard to the burden of loading, adding,” We are losing 30% at the loading due to the existing National Grid included Abdul-Mahdi citizens responsible for the power crisis and said that there are other loss are as described (patterns of high consumption and wasteful in people’s homes) Because not to collect the wages of energy consumption.
and saw oil minister that “increase the power output by increasing the money without regulation by the consumption and distribution will be difficult to organize the overall production rate and that gap will widen each year automatically.”
He said the “energy production rate of 7000 MW but the actual need and reached to 15 000 MW, and when we produced more than 10 000 MW became demand 21 thousand and when production increase to 15 000 MW will increase demand to more than 30 thousand and thus widen the gap between supply and demand. ”
He pointed out that “it is possible to solve partially the problem but the citizen should help by reducing electricity consumption. ”
He acknowledged the oil minister that “the money that is provided for the electricity sector will affect other sectors because there is a security file is complex and the salaries of state employees and health services and water, there must be a reasonable balance could meet during the current and coming period “
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