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Government surprise the citizens: Zodnakm with 14 hours of electricity per day
Date: Monday, 02/01/2012 10:23
□ Baghdad / follow-up term economic
announced the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation for the processing of citizens of more than 14 hours of electricity per day in 2011, while it confirmed that 90% of households received energy from private generators, or shared, she noted that the provinces of Nineveh and Anbar, Wasit and Najaf, Salah al-Din equipped with less than five hours a day from the national grid.
The Central Bureau of Statistics and Information Technology of the Ministry of Planning in a statement released yesterday, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, said that "Iraqi families received an average of 14.6 hours of electricity a day during the year 2011, whether through the national electricity grid or generators for both the last privately owned or shared with other families. "
The ministry added that "90% of households relied on private generators, or shared access to electric power," noting that "only 17 percent of Iraqi families got on the proportion of processing 20 hours a day from all sources, and this drops to about 8% in rural areas. "
The ministry said that "the provinces that received the largest amount of electrical energy, including the province of Basra to 19 hours a day and then the urban areas in the province of Muthanna to 18 hours day and the provinces of the Kurdistan region of more than 16 hours a day, "pointing out that" families that received more than 20 hours per day, including the districts of Basra and Faw in Basra province and the Penguin, Darbandikan in Sulaymaniyah. "
The ministry pointed out that "98% of the households received energy Power from the national grid, although it is supplied, including no more than an average of 7.6 hours per day on average, of which 1% of these households receive 20 hours per day of electricity when it acquired 82% of the families to equip ten hours or less per day . "
The ministry said that "82% of the households in the province of Nineveh, getting less than five hours a day from the national grid, and received 50% of households in the Anbar and Kirkuk and rural areas in Wasit, Salah al-Din and Najaf, less than five hours of processing of the national electricity" .
The Ministry of Electricity has signed a year-end 2008, a contract with General Electric of America, to supply Iraq with 56 generating units with full force seven thousand megawatts, as well as another contract with Siemens Germany, for the processing of 16 and a large, more strongly than three thousand megawatts , began to reach Iraq since the beginning of 2010.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is suffering a severe shortage of electric power since the beginning of the nineties of the last century, and increased hours of rationing power after 2003 in Baghdad and the provinces, because of made a lot of stations, as well as sabotage attacks on vital installations during the past years, and the steady increase in consumption as a result of public demand to buy electrical appliances and equipment which they were deprived during the past decades.
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