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New power plant for Sulaimaniya
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Azzaman - [5/6/2006]
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A small-sized power plant has been executed in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya with 16-megawatt capacity.
The plant provides electricity for at least 5,000 households in a city of nearly 800,000 inhabitants.
Sulaimaniya is the capital of a province of the same name. It is administered by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a Kurdish faction led by Jalal Talabani, currently the President of Iraq.
The $3.4 million project is one of several electrical plants the Kurds are erecting in their areas to ease power shortages.
Electricity is one of Iraq’s major problems and outages in big cities may last up to 20 hours a day.
Households now mainly rely on diesel-run generators which are only sufficient to power low-voltage bulbs and appliances.
Despite larges-scale investments estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars since the 2003 U.S. invasion, power generation capacity is still less than under the sanctions-hit former regime.
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