Amman – The Jordanian National Electricity Company announced, on Thursday, that the electrical interconnection line with Iraq will enter service as of next Saturday.
This came in a statement made by the company’s general manager (the energy service provider in the Kingdom), Amjad Al-Rawashdeh, to the official Jordanian News Agency (Petra).
Al-Rawashdeh stated, “The line will be shared between the Jordanian Al-Risha electrical station and the Iraqi Al-Rutba station, with a voltage of 132 kilovolts (13 megawatts), to feed the loads of the Al-Rutba area near the border with Jordan.”
While the Jordanian Agency quoted the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, confirming the completion of operation of the Iraqi-Jordanian electric line, setting the same date for entering service.
Last February, Jordan and Iraq signed a document to supply the Iraqi side with electrical energy, with a capacity of 40 megawatts in the first phase.
They also signed a memorandum of understanding in December 2018, for cooperation in the field of electricity and the establishment of an electrical interconnection network between the two countries.
In September 2020, the two countries signed a contract for the sale of electricity, through the establishment of an overhead transmission line as a first stage linking the Al-Risha substation on the Jordanian side and the Al-Qaim substation on the Iraqi side, with a length of 6 km east of Jordanian territory and 330 km west of Iraqi territory.
In the following month of the same year, Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh and his Iraqi counterpart, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, laid the foundation stone for an electrical interconnection project between the two countries.
Iraq suffers from a gap in the production of electrical energy, compared to the actual consumption, which amounts to more than 23 thousand megawatts, compared to a previous production of 19 thousand megawatts.
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2024-03-30 01:02:35