Baghdad, Iraq:

Iraq stated Sunday a brand new energy line will carry electrical energy from Turkey to its northern provinces as authorities goal to diversify the nation’s vitality sources to ease continual energy outages.

The 115-kilometre line connects to Kisik energy plant west of Mosul and can present 300 megawatts from Turkey to Iraq’s northern provinces of Nineveh, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, in keeping with an announcement by the prime minister’s workplace.

PM Mohamed Shia al-Sudani stated the brand new line is a “strategic” step to hyperlink Iraq with neighbouring international locations. 

“The road began working in the present day,” Ahmed Moussa, spokesperson for the electrical energy ministry, informed AFP.

Many years of conflict have left Iraq’s infrastructure in a pitiful state, with energy cuts worsening the blistering summer time when temperatures typically attain 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit).

Many households have only a few hours of mains electrical energy per day, and people who can afford it use personal mills to maintain fridges and air conditioners working.

Regardless of its huge oil reserves, Iraq stays depending on imports to satisfy its vitality wants, particularly from neighbouring Iran, which often cuts provides.

Sudani has repeatedly confused the necessity for Iraq to diversify vitality sources to ease the continual outages.

To scale back its dependence on Iranian fuel, Baghdad has been exploring a number of potentialities together with imports from Gulf international locations.

In March, a 340-kilometre (210-mile) energy line began working to carry electrical energy from Jordan to Al-Rutbah in Iraq’s southwest.

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