Minister of Electricity: We need an additional 14,000 megawatts to ensure continuous operation

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[size=52]Minister of Electricity: We need an additional 14,000 megawatts to ensure continuous operation[/size]

[size=45]Yesterday, Wednesday, Minister of Electricity Ziyad Ali Fadel confirmed that the country needs an additional 14 thousand megawatts in order to reach self-sufficiency in supply at a rate of 24 hours. A statement by the House of Representatives Media Department stated that “the Finance Committee, headed by Representative Atwan Al-Atwani and in the presence of its members, received the Minister of Electricity and the advanced staff of the ministry to discuss the ministry’s program and the electric power file.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement added that "the chairman of the committee, at the outset of the meeting with the minister and the advanced cadre," pointed out "the importance of such hosting, as it carries financial dimensions and service to citizens, and the need to face challenges as it is a shared responsibility."[/size]
[size=45]He stressed, "The committee is keen to review the ministry's work and the energy file and its transformation from a consumption ministry to a productivity one."[/size]
[size=45]The statement indicated that “the committee talked about a defect in the performance of the system and the interest in a sector without other important sectors.”[/size]
[size=45]He noted, "The generation units and network consumption cause power outages in exchange for high spending on the ministry without an increase in energy production, which necessitates modernizing those networks, maintaining units and establishing thermal stations."[/size]
[size=45]And he continued, “The Finance Committee discussed the file of service collection contracts and its percentage, and stressed the importance of cooperation to complete the completion of this network, as well as the need to respond quickly to the appeals and complaints of citizens in order to end the citizen’s suffering from the failure to connect electric power to residential areas.”[/size]
[size=45]And the statement continued, “The committee asked about the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity concluded with some companies and the amounts allocated within the emergency support for food security and development law voted in the House of Representatives, the operational and investment funds disbursed by the ministry and the size of the expected growth and its plan regarding the service collection file, in addition to the issue of the ministry’s debts.” And the expected revenues, how to end the abuses of the electrical system, get rid of the import and purchase of energy, resort to the privatization system, the amount of fuel provided to the Ministry of Oil, and send it to the committee in an official letter.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “the interventions of the committee members also included the possibility of completing electrical networks for residential areas, establishing additional networks and including them in the budget for the year 2023, distributing electrical energy according to population density fairly, lighting external roads, relying on companies that produce reliable transformers, in addition to the issue of associated gas consumption, which It causes harm to neighboring countries, and the trend towards clean energy projects.[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the Minister of Electricity said, according to the statement, that “the ministry is determined to advance this file through the support of the parliamentary committee and the concerned parties,” providing an explanation “about the ministry’s operational and investment budget, the doors of spending, spending, and maintenance, and the ministry’s mechanism in dealing with it.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The ministry can implement additional compound units within the 2021 plan, recognizing the need for financial allocations, which delays the implementation of these projects in the plan prepared for the ministry," noting that the ministry needs additional projects related to combined cycles and the establishment of thermal stations.[/size]
[size=45]Fadel explained, "The existence of a smart systems project to be presented to the Council of Ministers," revealing that "the deficit in electricity supply amounts to 14,000 megawatts, while it needs 37,000 megawatts to reach self-sufficiency in supply at a rate of 24 hours."[/size]
[size=45]Fadel called for "providing support by developing a strategic plan to target high loads by activating the collection service and working on maintaining and installing transformers in order to find appropriate solutions for energy supply."[/size]
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