Specialists: 6 billion dollars to contain the electricity crisis

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Specialists: 6 billion dollars to contain the electricity crisis

by Rocky Thu 15 Jun 2023, 4:19 am

Specialists: 6 billion dollars to contain the electricity crisis

Economical 2023/06/15
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Baghdad: Nafeh al-Naji

Coinciding with the high temperatures and the height of the summer season, specialists urged finding alternatives to the problems of gas receding and the accompanying fluctuation and poor supply of electricity, and stressed that Iraq needs 6 billion dollars to contain the electricity crisis.
The supplied gas and fuel releases have recently receded, causing loads to be limited and some of them to stop, at a time when the Ministry of Electricity has stressed the need to diversify the fuel sources supplied to stations whose total production capacity is more than 22,000 megawatts.
Hussam Al-Kilani, a specialist in electricity affairs, told Al-Sabah that there are many solutions to mitigate the impact of the electricity crisis, including rationalizing the amounts of gas imports for two years only and investing them in building renewable energy stations to get rid of the heavy burden on the economy.
And he added that Iraq does not need more than 6 billion dollars in order to increase its production capacity of electricity to reach sufficient and turn from a consuming country to an energy exporting country.
He pointed out that it has become necessary to diversify energies by relying on wind, solar and hydroelectric energy, and not be limited to traditional energy through gas and fossil fuels. According to specialists, Iraq produces 30 million cubic meters of gas per day, which is used to operate power stations, while it imports about 50 million cubic meters for the same purpose. And stop importing from abroad. Ahmed Mousa, a spokesman for the ministry, said recently: All our stations are ready for operation, and what we need is the fuel plan, to generate sufficient energy, so that this will reflect positively on the operating hours of all electric power stations. The plan requires the provision of more than 50 million cubic meters of imported gas, to side of domestic gas.
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