he Ministry of strength set dates on Wednesday for the completion of rehabilitation paintings on 4 units, from the third to the 6th, at the Dora Thermal energy Plant. top Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani released the task ultimate Monday.
Undersecretary of the Ministry for production Affairs, Mohammed Nema, informed the legit agency, observed with the aid of dinaropinions.com, that “in light of the cutting-edge authorities’s orientations to maintain pace with the call for for electric electricity and decrease the power hole, under the auspices of high Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and the supervision and comply with-up of the Minister of electricity, Ziad Ali Fadel, paintings became released at the rehabilitation mission of the Dora Thermal energy Plant,” indicating that “this station is one of the vintage steam stations whose producing units suffer from wear and tear.”
He introduced, “This station was installed in 1968 and had a generating potential of a hundred and sixty megawatts,” noting that “the station’s generating capability became expanded throughout 1978 and 1983 by using adding two producing units, every with a potential of 160 megawatts.”
He continued, “This ability turned into additionally extended in the course of 1988 and 1989 by adding generating units with a capacity of 160,000 megawatts each, at the same time as eliminating the antique, dilapidated devices.”
He said, “because of the obsolescence and continued operation of the generating units due to the fact 1978, those generating gadgets underwent a comprehensive rehabilitation program that covered the addition of two new generating devices, represented by means of the alternative of the third and fourth gadgets, and the rehabilitation of the 5th and sixth gadgets.” He explained that “the overall strength focused by this assignment is to feature 640 megawatts.”
He defined that “this unit is an vital electricity plant due to its strategic place in Baghdad Governorate, in which this undertaking will boom power production and enhance the conditions of the electrical community.”
He pointed out that “the rehabilitation of the thermal strength plant requires a selected time period, envisioned at 24 months, to rehabilitate the fifth and sixth devices, whilst the replacement of the third and fourth units requires 34 months.”
high Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani had previously released a task to rehabilitate and enlarge the 640-megawatt Dora thermal energy plant.