Baghdad Common Board uncovered that around 800 confidential generators out of around 3,000 have stuck to the chamber’s guidelines with respect to the authority estimating, as a component of the principal period of a mission it sent off in this field.
Safaa Al-Mashhadani, the head of the Council’s Oil and Gas Committee, told “dinaropinions.com” that the committee met with the Generators Syndicate, an unofficial group made up of generator contractors’ representatives, to set up mechanisms and make decisions about their work in the capital. This was in response to a campaign the group started to see if people were following the official pricing for October, which is 14,000 dinars for the golden line and 11,000 dinars for
He noted that in addition to obligating administrative units to submit monthly reports on the ampere prices and to conduct field tours to verify with citizens the price in their areas, the aforementioned campaign was launched by conducting field tours on approximately 3,000 generators distributed among various areas of Baghdad. Additionally, it was agreed to impose fines of 5 million dinars on the contractor who owns a share of (kerosene) and does not adhere to the aforementioned price, and 2 million dinars on those who
Al-Mashhadani confirmed that, out of the 3,000 contractors who participated in the initial phase, 800 have agreed to follow the official pricing instructions given by the council. After receiving pledges from these contractors and issuing a variety of fines, the remaining generators are being monitored throughout this campaign until their total number exceeds 20,000 in the capital, Baghdad.
Al-Mashhadani stated in the same context that the committee met with the Ministry of Electricity to agree on a formula for cooperation between officials of the regions’ electricity departments and administrative units. This was done in light of the wide variation in supply hours between regions, making it difficult to establish a single price for an ampere. He said that an ampere costs 6,000 dinars in northern Baghdad and Mahmoudiyah, while it costs 8-10,000 dinars in Abu Ghraib. He called attention to that the authoritative units affirmed to the council that there are regions where the long stretches of blackouts range somewhere in the range of 12 and 14 hours, which requires the service to circle back to administrators in the power divisions.
Al-Mashhadani also said that the committee agreed with the Ministry of Oil to lower the price of fuel for people who use government equipment. He also said that the generators file needs the help of higher authorities like the Council and the Secretariat of Ministers to make decisions that all relevant departments will have to follow, which is what the Council is currently looking for after getting the approvals it needs.
