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The Delays in projects of electric power in Basrah
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Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [9/23/2007]
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An official of the Electricity Committee in the Basrah Governorate Council, said on Thursday that the delay in the completion of power projects in the city of Basrah is due to technical and financial constraints hindering the implementation of these projects punctually, referring to the lack of investment projects by foreign firms because of the deteriorating security situation.
Ghazi Smari explained during a press conference, "These obstacles are represented by the lack of specialized companies for the implementation of such electrical projects as well as the highly speculative cost of these projects." He added, "Electricity projects and require specialized expertise and efficiency by the executing companies and these are not available in local companies; more than one contract was forwarded to certain firms, but at the stage of signing the contract they apologized for the implementation of the project. As for the investing these projects by foreign firms, these companies can not work under unstable conditions."
He continued, "As for the project of importing electricity from the city of Abadan in Iran, the proportion of completion of this project reached nearly 75% and was scheduled to be delivered in mid-September but because of the difficulty of work in that area, being on the borders, made it hard for mechanisms to get there in addition to the existing of warfare remnants, especially mines, led to the delay in completing the project which will contribute significantly to the improvement and stability of electricity in the province of Basrah, since its capacity reaches 200 Mika Watt, and it is hoped to be completed by the beginning of November."
Smari talked about the implemented electric projects in Basrah through the grant of developing regions and said, "The projects implemented by Basrah Governorate Council using the grant of developing regions for 2007 included the city's central and suburban areas and they are: al-Kherbutliah, Mteiha, Dour Al-Dhubbat, Al-Asdiqaa District, Al-Amn Al-Dakhli and Al-Tuwessah; also, a low and high pressure network was developed at Al-Assatitha neighborhood in the city center. The projects aim to solve the bottlenecks in these areas, and they were provided with switches of 250-400 K.V. Five electric nutrients had also been implemented in Al-Saraji area."
Smari denied during the press conference that there is a plan to apply the system of the (Amperes) in the governorate of Basrah, explaining that this project had failed in other Iraqi cities. He said that "the problem of electricity needs radical solutions, not temporary ones like the Amperes system which defines the use of electric power to each house by (15) nm, and which had proven failure from the point of view of specialists also failed to prove its success in the areas where the project was implemented."
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