Turkey to provide 500 MW of temporary power to Iraq
- Turkey is to supply mobile power generators with capacity of 500 MW to Iraq in a second electricity supply deal to help with the country's power shortage, the energy ministry said recently.
"An agreement has been reached on Turkish mobile power generators going into service in Iraq to meet local energy demands," the ministry statement said.
The announcement came a day after the ministry unveiled a separate deal to sell up to 200 MW of electricity to Iraq which will be supplied via a power line through southeast Turkey.
The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources announced on Friday that it would supply Iraq with electricity and planned to sign an agreement next week in Ankara. Under that agreement, sales will begin at the level of 50 MW and will gradually rise to 200 MW.
The Turkish Energy Ministry indicated that the initial agreement between both sides stipulates supplying Iraq with electricity, through a pipeline between the two towns of Sloppi and Zakho, located on the Turkish-Iraqi borders.
The Ministry said that the Turkish efforts to participate in the projects of rebuilding Iraq have succeeded in its first stage, indicating that the Ministry is studying new projects in Iraq to be implemented during the next stage.
The Turkish Energy Ministry is currently studying a project to modernize the Iraqi electricity network, in addition to the plan to transfer mobile power plants to Iraq.
Iraq's efforts to rebuild its infrastructure four months after the fall of Baghdad are being hampered by sabotage which is leading to frequent power cuts.
Iran is also planning to sell electricity from Mehran and Dehloran, two border cities in its western Ilam province to the eastern Iraqi provinces of Wasset and Meysan, state media reported recently.
"Based on discussions between officials from the two countries, the electricity network of Mehran and Dehloran will be connected to that of the two neighbouring Iraqi provinces Wasset and Meysan," the Mehran city governor, Morteza Lotfi was quoted as saying by official news agency IRNA. No further details were given.
On August 27, Muwaffak al-Rubai, a member of Iraq's interim Governing Council, said Iraq was negotiating the purchase of electricity from Iran, Syria and Turkey in an effort to stem growing power shortages since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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