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    “Solarizing” government buildings project.. 90 billion dinars for systems that do not meet 1% of ins

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    “Solarizing” government buildings project.. 90 billion dinars for systems that do not meet 1% of ins Empty “Solarizing” government buildings project.. 90 billion dinars for systems that do not meet 1% of ins

    Post by Rocky Wed 30 Oct 2024, 7:27 am

    “Solarizing” government buildings project.. 90 billion dinars for systems that do not meet 1% of institutions’ electricity needs 
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    It has been almost a full year since the government began talking about converting more than 500 government buildings and facilities to operate on solar-generated electricity. The high and often neglected roofs of government buildings, in addition to the fact that departments only operate during the day, all of these factors combined to make the option of cutting government departments off from the national system and isolating them with a single solar energy system, an “ideal option.”

     

    Not only the technical data, but also the economic feasibility that this step could achieve if it is implemented, despite the fact that it is “not without problems and possibilities of manipulation” according to many, but isolating government departments from the national system may solve one of the most important problems facing the Ministry of Electricity with government ministries and institutions, which is the failure to pay electricity fees, which remain as debts for many years, amounting to 4.5 trillion dinars, which the Ministry of Electricity considered “one of the reasons for affecting the work of the Ministry of Electricity, as it depends on financing and revenues generated from collection,” especially since this amount “is capable of covering the import of gas from Iran for a whole year, or the equivalent of nearly half of the Ministry of Electricity’s budget.”

     

    Another reason why separating government institutions from the national system is feasible is that ministries and government institutions are the second largest consumers of energy after households. Of the approximately 64 million megawatts sold by the Ministry of Electricity last year 2023, 55% of them went to household consumption, 18% to government consumption, 10% to industrial consumption, 7% to commercial consumption, and 1% to agricultural consumption, according to official data tracked by Al-Jabal.

     

    Conflict in numbers and amounts


    Since the talk about the project to "sunlight" government buildings and make them operate on solar energy began late last year 2023, the National Initiative Rapporteur, Head of the Quality Management Department at the Ministry of Electricity, Shaima Mazhar, said that the project aims to convert 550 government buildings, including 290 schools in Baghdad and the governorates.

     

    But in September 2024, the Minister of Electricity and the spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity said that the project targets 535 government buildings at a cost of 65 billion dinars, but in October of this year, the spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity came out with a new number and cost, indicating that “the project targets 546 government buildings and 90 billion dinars have been allocated for the project.”

     

    Another suspicious indicator is that the Ministry of Electricity indicates that government institutions will have the freedom to choose and contract with companies that supply solar energy systems on the roofs of their buildings, meaning that the matter will not be centralized and each institution will be concerned with the name, type and costs of the company, and this may “lead to widespread and uncontrolled corruption, as there will be hundreds of contracts distributed among government institutions and there will be no central oversight over them.”

     

    Does the cost reflect the amount of energy?

     

    There is no clear detail from the responsible authorities, headed by the Ministry of Electricity, about whether this cost of 90 billion dinars is the comprehensive cost of the entire project or if it is for an initial phase or covers only a small part of the institutions before completing the number of buildings, which amounts to more than 500 buildings?

     

    However, according to the announced cost, Al-Jabal is trying to find out the amount of energy that this amount can provide through solar energy. By reviewing the prices of solar energy systems, it becomes clear that the price of one watt, in the best case scenario, is $2. This means that the 90 billion dinars, which is equivalent to about $68 million, will produce 34 million watts, or the equivalent of 34 thousand kilowatts.


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    According to the generation system, according to energy-specialized websites, each system with a capacity of 10 kilowatts produces 12 thousand kilowatts per hour. This means that the systems at the price set by the state, which will have a capacity of 34 thousand kilowatts, will produce more than 40 million kilowatts per hour, or the equivalent of 40 thousand megawatts per year, according to calculations conducted by Al-Jabal.

     

    For a better understanding, when comparing this amount of energy with the energy consumed by state institutions, government institutions consumed more than 11 million megawatts in 2023, so the allocated amount is enough to generate only 0.03% of the total electrical energy needed by state institutions. If the price of the systems is lower, i.e. with less efficient types and at a price of $1 per watt, then the allocated amount will produce energy equivalent to 1% of the total energy consumed by state institutions at best, which is a small and ineffective percentage, unless the amount will be allocated to part of the project and not distributed to all the targeted buildings in full.

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