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Minister vows to improve electricity energy by 50% during the next summer
On: Sun 12/18/2011 8:11
□ Baghdad / agencies
confirmed the mass of free parliamentary of the Sadrist movement, the Electricity Minister Abdul Karim Aftan pledged to improve electric power during the next summer by 50% compared to last summer.
The head of the bloc Bahaa al-Araji, said in a statement, according to "Alsumaria News", "Minister of Electricity Abdul Karim Aftan explained to us the most important achievements of the ministry during the past period, and some projects in the process of establishment and the most important future aspirations, "noting that" Aftan confirmed that electricity will improve in the next summer by 50% than it was last summer. "
The Ministry of Electricity has announced, on 15 December, the current, has signed a contract with one of the Iranian companies to double the capacity of a power station Sadr gas of 320 to 640 MW and the total cost of approximately $ 70 million.
The Ministry of Electricity, in the 11 of December, the current, for a contract with a French company to create a power station Mansuriyah gas card 728 MW and a total cost of $ 539 million.
and signed the Ministry of Electricity at the end of 2008, a contract with General Electric U.S. to supply Iraq with 56 units obstetric full, and another contract with Siemens Germany the processing of 16 units a large capacity of three thousand megawatts.
The Ministry of Electricity and directed, on 25 December 2010 the past, calls directly to a number of international companies specialized in the electricity sector to implement the three stations gas, including a power station Najibiyah in the province of Basra.
and offered the Ministry of Electricity, in the month of December 2010 also, the construction of four power plants, gas for investment within the first licensing round, to double production over the coming years, and the presentation included a power station on the Shatt al-Arab in Basra, the rate of ten units of the strength of each of 125 MW and a total capacity of 1,250 MW power station Samawa by four units, the strength of each of 125 MW and a total capacity of 500 MW power station Diwaniya, with four units of power of 500 MW power station architecture with four units each with a capacity of 125 MW, to reach the total capacity of these units are to 2750 MW.
Iraq has suffered a shortage of electricity since the beginning of 1990, and increased hours of rationing power after 2003, in Baghdad and the provinces, because of made a lot of stations in addition to the operations of sabotage of installations over the past years, with increased hours of power cuts for citizens to about twenty hours a day one.
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