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It expects to raise the electricity supply to 19 hours and confirm to spend $ 30 billion
2015/10/07
Dhi Qar
He expected the Ministry of Electricity, on Wednesday, rising hours citizens equipped with electric power to 19 hours during the summer, and while spending confirmed the $ 30 billion on electricity during the nine years, pointed out that the power output is 16 thousand megawatts within the plan adopted by the ministry.
Said Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity for Distribution Abdul-Hamza Hadi Abboud in an interview with the (long-Presse) on the sidelines of his visit to the province of Dhi Qar, at the head of an official delegation to follow up on the electricity issue in the province, said that "The Ministry of Electricity has prepared an emergency plan of several stages and are being implemented based on the available resources the ministry as well as according to the size allocated to the Ministry of money, "noting that" if the central government provided the money needed to cover the plan provides enough fuel, next summers will see a significant improvement in processing power. "
Abboud pointed out that "hours of processing would be 14 hours if it is to rely only on the capabilities currently available in the ministry, but if were allocated funds required for the implementation of the ministry's plan and the improved security situation in the areas, which includes production of electric power stations Kdially, Anbar and Mosul, it will be hours of processing at a rate of 19 hour across the country, "noting that" the Ministry of Electricity Plan in harmony with the reforms adopted by the central government. "
He Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity to "The Ministry of Electricity has spent $ 30 billion since 2006 and up to date on various sectors in the power circles," he said, adding that "the money spent by Ministry of Electricity is available on the official website of the Ministry of spending details can be follow-up of those who want it." .
Abboud said that "the ministry's plan in the joints of the power output of 16 thousand megawatts with the presence of many production plants under the monument and implementation currently other stations were controlled by terrorist groups in the western and northern provinces," pointing out that "the power usurped the size of the areas controlled by the terror in the areas of Baiji and crutch and Mansuriyah and Mosul and other areas is estimated at three thousand and 500 megawatts, and this is part of the money spent by the Ministry of Electricity. "
The province of Dhi Qar, announced on Tuesday (October 6, 2015), the formation of an operations room to deal with energy shortages and rehabilitation of the electricity sector problem in the province in preparation for the summer of 2016, and while pointing Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity to prepare a plan for the development of the sectors of production and the transfer of energy in the province of Dhi Qar, confirmed that most of Dhi Qar provinces facing the problems of the electricity sector in the province.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is suffering a severe shortage of electric power since the beginning of 1990, as increased hours of power rationing after 2003 in Baghdad and the provinces, because made a lot of stations, as well as sabotage attacks on vital installations during the past years.
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