Swiss company ABB wins contract to build four plants to electricity transmission and distribution Ku

Swiss company ABB wins contract to build four plants to electricity transmission and distribution Kurdistan worth $ 30 million


Author: HAA
Editor: AHS
17/07/2013 17:47


Range Press / Baghdad

Company announced ABB Swiss specialized projects, electric power, on Wednesday, won a contract from the Zagros to build four new plants, transmission and distribution in the Kurdistan region, while confirming that the contract value of up to $ 30 million, noting that these stations is working to add 600 megawatts of other energy Electric province.

The transfer of the site as soon as Traders news about the company, seen by (range Press), that "the company ABB Swiss specialized projects of electric power has won a contract secondary, worth about 30 million dollars from the company Zagros Energy, to build four stations, a new high, transmission and distribution in Kurdistan" , noting that "This move came as part of a broad initiative to expand and strengthen the national network of electric power."

He said the site, said "the project of ABB Switzerland includes the design and processing of secondary stations, which will add 600 megawatts of other electric power for the region," stressing that "stations based on its work on the system Technology developed in the process of transmission and distribution of electrical energy between the neighborhoods of the city" .

Site pointed out that "the electric power network working to equip the region with 2,750 megawatts of electric power," noting that "90% of the energy produced is owned and operated by independent power companies."

Site noted "an increasing demand for processing power in Kurdistan, where the annual rate of increase from 10% to 25%, because of industrial growth and expansion of reconstruction projects and increase overall economic development in the country."

The Ministry of Electricity revealed, yesterday Monday, the "forms of art with the Oil Ministry," asserting that the latter suffers from "technical problems, causing reduced production of electric power stations," and confirmed that the production of electricity amounted to more than ten thousand megawatts, and as pointed out that hours of operation of electric power in Baghdad, up to 12 hours a day, and promised to increase the production of electricity in the coming period.

It was the advisers in the Council of Ministers, revealed the first Monday of July, 2013, that the end of the electricity crisis in Iraq will be in the first quarter of 2015, and stressed that Iraq will result in the next two years, about 22 thousand megawatts and an increase of 15% from the need, while the expected decrease hours cut Electricity gradually during the coming period.

The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, reiterated Monday June 3, 2013, confirmed the end of the electrical energy crisis end of the year 2013, as pointed out that the Ministry of Electricity will enter the new service stations in the coming period.

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced, in April 2013, that the current year will see the end of the energy crisis, and that next summer will be better than its predecessor in terms of processing power.

And Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in the first of January 2013, it will ensure the provision of electricity this year, 2013 "on the clock", stressing that Iraq still needs to "expand Taakedath" with international companies in order to provide electrical power, while praised Korean companies work in Iraq, he stressed that the global economic studies put Iraq "among the top ten countries in terms of growth."

Iraq has suffered a shortage of electricity since the beginning of 1990, and increased hours of rationing electricity after the year 2003, in Baghdad and the provinces, because made a lot of stations, as well as sabotage attacks on facilities over the past years, with increased hours of power cuts for citizens to about twenty hours per day

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