revealed Electricity Minister, on Monday, announced the arrival of his ministry to advanced stages of talks with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and neighboring countries, to activate the joint electrical connection, stressing that the size of the increase energy production for the current year amounted to 15 percent compared with last year, to be processed for summer Current, the most since the establishment of the Ministry of Electricity. 

Al-Khatib said in a press statement published by state media today, that the production of electricity at peak rates reached last year, 14 thousand and 500 MW, this summer will rise to 18 thousand megawatts, an increase of 15 percent from last year, which qualifies the ministry to equip citizens Powered by better hours than last summer. "

He added that "the ministry has also taken on the development of the reality of the network in terms of transmission lines and distribution networks, which will contribute to increase the reliability of the electricity network throughout the country," noting that " Iraq and the result of the war fought with criminal gangs, has witnessed sabotage in the infrastructure within Liberated provinces ". 

Iraq is suffering from a large shortage of electricity, which made most citizens turn to the generators to compensate for the shortage of large amounts of money paid to the owners of these generators.