Electricity Ministry: major changes affect next Summer

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  • 7-04-2022, 09:39
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    Baghdad-INA

    The Ministry of Electricity announced that major changes in the energy situation will affect next summer.

    The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Electricity Operations Room held a meeting at the ministry's headquarters, headed by the Minister of Electricity in charge, Adel Karim, to discuss the readiness of the national system during the summer of 2022."

     At the beginning of the meeting, Minister Adel Karim referred to the "great interest of the Prime Minister regarding financial support for the completion of summer preparations, and the possibility of the Iranian side increasing the rates of imported gas, which means the possibility of achieving a reliable increase in energy production, and stressed to hold all companies working with the ministry accountable for any failures and delays, including defects in the required specifications and completion rates.

    The statement added, "The meeting also dealt with the most important preparations implemented in the obstetric units of all stations, including the rehabilitation of obstetric units for the center, south, north and middle Euphrates."

    The minister stressed the completion of the operation of the second unit of the Al-Quds station, and the sixth and second units of the Wasit station, in addition to Al-Sadr, Al-Mansuriya and south of Baghdad gas after the availability of gas, and the completion of the maintenance of the units of the Rumaila gas station and opening credits to Siemens in favor of completing the work.

    The work of rehabilitating the transport sector, such as the lines of Khor Al-Zubair, Al-Rumaila, the lines for draining the loads of Shatt Al-Basra and Najibiyah, and the works implemented through the Japanese loan and GE Company, as well as the works of the (Heat - Acidic) line in the regions of western Anbar, taking into account the character and balancing of loads for the benefit of the governorates of Kirkuk and Salah were also discussed.