Alanbar plant to produce 1,640 MW
Iraq has submitted an allocation to build a giant power plant in the western governorate of Alanbar as part of ongoing plans to rehabilitate its war-torn electric power sector and its dependence on imports of force, local media reported on Thursday.
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on Wednesday laid the cornerstone for the allocation that will produce 1,640 megawatts (MW) and fill a gap at the source in the country’s largest province.
Al-Sumeria News and other Iraqi publications said the task would cost a billion dollars and be completed within 3 years from the start date.
“This is a major task that will strive to expand the generation of forces in Iraq,” Kadhimi said at the groundbreaking ceremony.
The rehabilitation of the electric power sector is part of a post-war reconstruction program introduced by the OPEC member a few years ago at a cost of more than a billion dollars.
Iraq, which sits atop the world’s fifth-largest recoverable oil field, is also building several solar power plants to increase the contribution of renewables to its combined strength and force imports from neighboring Iran.
(Written by Nadim Kawach; Edited by Anoop Menon)
(anoop. menon@lseg. com)
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