Author: MB Editor: CC | NQ Friday 05 August 2011 06:48 GMT
One of the power plants, marine
Alsumaria News / Basra
Announced that the province of Basra, on Friday, planning to set up a giant sea to generate electricity to be installed in a coastal area overlooking the Gulf, calling at the same time the central government to allow it to contract with an international company to implement the project.
The adviser said the governor of Basra for Energy Munther Hashim in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the local government in Basra began planning the rapid set up a giant sea to generate electricity production capacity of three thousand megawatts," noting that "the station will be established in the coastal area overlooking the North Persian Gulf as it will benefit from the waters of the sea. "
Hashim added that "the plant will produce electric power in addition to at least 300 thousand cubic meters of potable water per day," pointing at the same time that it "will fill a need Basra full of power."
The Advisor to the Governor of Basra to the energy affairs that "the project will be officially presented to the provincial council next week for approval in preparation for the start of its implementation," pointing out that "the feasibility study for the station, stating that it will be completed in three years."
The Hashem that "the project is greater than the potential of local companies, so will be contracted with an international company for its implementation after the completion of legal procedures," explaining that "the only obstacle to the project and controls by the central government to prevent local governments in the provinces of a contract to build power stations increase its production capacity for 30 MW. "
He called on Advisor to the Governor of Basra Council of Ministers to "exempt the province of those controls to enable it to provide electricity to its population, after that failed, and the Ministry of Electricity to provide the minimum of them during the past years," noting that "the terminal will be established with funding from the budget of Basra for the current year."
And includes the province of Basra, about 590 km south of Baghdad, five stations significant for the production of electric power all working for less than its design, the station Hartha heat created by the Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan in 1979, and the station Najibiyah heat created by the company Technoprom Export Russia in 1974, and Station Creek Zubair gas created by a German company in 1977, and the Shuaiba plant species created by the company Alostom French in 1973, while the station is the petrochemical gas created by Scottish company in 1988, most recently, as people are suffering in the summer of high temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius during the the day, as the waves of high humidity, which carried by winds coming from the south-east, usually produce a lot of cases of suffocation when the power supply to residential areas.
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