Alstom will build a power plant in southern Iraq
28/07/2010
1975 . BAGHDAD (AFP) – The French industrial group “Alstom” in Baghdad on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to build a power plant capacity of 1200 megawatts in southern Iraq, and update the station was built in 1975 in the holy city of Najaf.
French Ambassador Boris Buyon, told Agence France Presse: “Alstom has signed today (Wednesday), a protocol agreement in the field of electricity production with the Iraqi governmentIn a statement released in Paris, Alstom said that this agreement covers three projects, one relating to the delivery station Closed (engineering, supply and construction) to generate electricity, run on fuel in Basra (south).
Buyon said, “This facility has three units, each 400 megawatt project also provides for the delivery of power stations.” “The second project covers the rehabilitation of power plant 180 MW power in Najaf, equipped with three gas turbines were built by Alstom in 1975.”
, According to sources close to the file, the building of the power station would cost between 1,5 and 2 billion dollars. . A third project deals with the delivery of several centers of power in different locations in Iraq, Alstom said in a statement. . The agreement also on the training of Iraqi engineers and technicians.
. Before signing the agreement in the Ministry of Electricity, he met with General Manager Alstom, Patrick Kron Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Maliki announced in a statement that “friendly relations with France leads us to work with French companies which have strong expertise He also said, “We hope to improve the electricity sector, which has been hit in recent years in Iraq, and to meet the growing needs of electricity.”
For his part, according to a statement Prime Minister, the krona, “said the desire of his company in supplying Iraq with skill as we did in other countries in the world. And electricity production in Iraq up to eight thousand megawatts, but the demand in the period of high temperatures, exceeding 14 000 MW. . At the end of June, Iraqis demonstrated in several cities in violence. He spent two demonstrators in Basra (south), the third largest city in the country, where temperatures reached 54 degrees Celsius.
. Maliki has said he can not fully solve the problem of electricity before it enters the new plants under construction become operational within two years. . Many Iraqis have no access to electricity for only an hour every five hours and even less so, knowing that the air conditioning or cooling is considered to be monopolized by the well-being of its best possession of an electric generator and access to special fuel.
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