Iraq agrees with Siemens to build five new stations to boost electricity grid, 31 July

 The representative for the Iraqi Service of Power, Ahmed Musa, said on Tuesday that the service concurred with the German organization “Siemens” to foster a specialized guide to foster the electric transmission area.

Musa told , “Among the means settled upon with Siemens is the foundation of five stations in various governorates, including the capital, Baghdad.”

Musa made sense of that “these stations will give a complete limit of up to 7,500 megawatts, as each station will have a limit of 1,500 megawatts,” focusing on that “work is in progress to foster the transportation area in Iraq to accomplish higher unwavering quality in the association and removal of the energy delivered.”

That’s what he added “the organization and 400 stations structure the lines connecting the governorates, which upgrades the nature of the organizations, forestalls transportation mishaps, and gets the inventory of conveyance organizations.”

He stated that “these stations will be part of the ministry’s plan for the next three years, and will be transformer stations responsible for discharging the energy produced and feeding the electricity grid through transmission lines,” and that “the agreement with the German company Siemens includes specific financial allocations and that the contracts are ready to establish the five stations.”

In collaboration with the German company Siemens, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani launched the executive works on the 495 MW combined cycle expansion projects for Al-Haidariyah and Al-Najaf gas-fired power plants as well as the 400 kilowatt transformer station project yesterday, Monday.