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With unrest in several Arab cities, many in the region are worried about the risk of contagion. The latest flashpoints are Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and Algeria; but is Iraq vulnerable as well? The people certainly have a lot to complain about. Electricity The heat and increased use of air conditioning put a major strain […]
A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity said on Saturday that resolving the energy crisis that has plagued the country in recent years will cost an estimated $6bn [7.2 trillion Iraqi dinars]. Musab al-Mudaris told AKnews that the ministry has asked parliament to provide appropriate funds in the 2011 budget to resolve the shortcomings […]
Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity has today issued a tender for the supply of equipment at Mosul power station. Please click here to download details (in Arabic only). The closing date for the receipt of bids is 15th February. The Ministry has also issued tenders for the rehabilitation of boilers in Salahadin. Please click below to […]
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction has reportedly won a contract worth $219 million to build a 500 megawatt power station near Baghdad, as part of the Iraqi government's efforts to address power shortages, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Ali al-Dabbagh, who is also a minister of state, told Dow Jones Newswires after a weekly […]
Iraq’s Kirkuk province resumed power supplies to the national grid on Friday, after a deal that ended a dispute this week over the provision of electricity. The oil-rich northern province that produces more electricity than it is allocated, announced on Monday that it would stop supplying power to the national network, a decision it implemented […]
According to a report from AFP, Iraq's northern Kirkuk province said it had stopped supplying electricity to the national grid on Tuesday, in a bold move to force the central government's hand in a dispute over power rationing. "Kirkuk province has decided to cut the power going out from its electricity stations to other provinces […]
The chairman of Wasit [Wassit] council’s media department has said that the council has called on its citizens not to pay their electricity bills because they are too high. The economic commission in the federal Council of Ministers directed the ministry of electricity last year to gradually increase the cost of consumer electricity in order […]
The Ministry of Electricity in Baghdad, in cooperation with consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), will present Iraq’s Long Term Electricity Master Plan at a 2-day conference in Istanbul on 1st and 2nd February, 2011. The 2010 – 2030 Long Term Master Plan, prepared by joint teams from Parsons Brinckerhoff and the Ministry of Electricity's Planning […]
Iraq's Ministry of Electricity has today issued a tender for the supply of 132KV cables. Please click here to download details (in Arabic only). The closing date for the receipt of bids is 26th January.
Iraq plans to almost triple power generation capacity to 17,000 MW by 2013, mostly through building new plants, Masaab Serri, an Electricity Ministry spokesman, told Bloomberg. Iraq plans to invite bids later this year for the construction of three power plants to boost output by 1,500 megawatts, he said on Tuesday. One plant is to […]
Due to US sanctions, Iraq has been unable to pay Iran millions of dollars owed for electricity, an Iraqi official said, potentially damaging its efforts to supply enough power to a population suffering chronic shortages. According to the report from Reuters, Adel Mahdi, an adviser to the electricity ministry, said on Wednesday that Iraq imports […]
Iraq signed deals worth $52 million with France's Schneider Electric and Areva to build 15 power distribution stations in the southern oil hub of Basra, the province's deputy governor, Ahmed Hameed, said on Sunday. Schneider Electric, has won a $29 million contract to build eight distribution stations, while Areva was awarded a $23 million deal […]
