Electricity: Complete line linking Krkh - Building new energy imports from Iran
On: Tue 6/12/2011 5:52
Baghdad / follow-up long-
announced the Ministry of Electricity, on Monday, for the completion of the connecting line Krkh - Building new energy imports from Iran, noting that the line will provide national system capacity of 200 MW.
The official spokesman said the ministry Musab al-teacher in a statement released yesterday and received the long version him, "The Angels of engineering and art in the Directorate General of the projects of power transmission was completed to link the final line to import power new Krkh Building (400 to. in) with Iran," adding that "the line will provide the system, the national electricity capacity of 200 megawatts, and will be commercial operation during the next few days. "
The teacher has to "line Krkh - Building is the fourth line, which connects the system of Iraq's electricity system-Iranian, which is imported electric power from which," noting that "there are three other lines are operational, the import of energy from which a line (Abadan, Basra) the national system which is equipped with a capacity of 300 MW and the line (Kermanshah Diyala), which prepares the national system with a capacity of 400 MW, in addition to the line (Serpil Zahab Khanaqin), which prepares the national system with a capacity of 100 MW. "
teacher pointed out that "the total lines which will provide Iraq with electric power after the end of the fourth line will be 1,000 megawatts, "stressing that" the line Krkh - Building will be operated commercially during the next few days. "
The Ministry of Electricity has agreed, in August 2010, with Iran on the link lines carrying electricity from Iran to Iraq via the pressure high, rather than linked to the high pressure to be distributed to all Iraqi provinces rather than to provide the provinces of certain electric power.
and often face the transfer of power from Iran to Iraq's problems and fluctuations due to Iran's claim that the Ministry of Electricity do not pay wages placed on it by the import of electrical energy, while stressing the Ministry of Electricity as a paid consistently and on a regular basis all wages placed on it and attributed the cause of cessation of electricity in some areas, which imports power from Iran to technical failures.
and often experience power transmission lines to acts of sabotage, which announced the Ministry of Electricity in August 2010 on exposure of ten lines, power transmission pressure super-nutrients of the city of Baghdad to an act of sabotage led to the exit from the service and the interruption of almost complete.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is suffering a shortage in the supply of electric power since 1990 after the imposition of the UN embargo on Iraq, and the problem was exacerbated after the 2003, and increased hours of power outages to about twenty hours per day, increasing the adoption of the parents on generators and small power capacity.
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