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Iraq's Ministry of Electricity has awarded Germany's Siemens a turnkey design, construction and commissioning contract for the West Mosul 400-kilovolt (kV) super grid station in the Nineveh province.
The construction of the Mosul station, which was destroyed in 2014, will help ensure stability in the transmission of power supply to the covered areas, coupled with a reduction in power losses, Siemens said in a press statement on Tuesday.
It said the project would be financed by the German state-owned development bank KfW.
The 400-kV station will supply approximately 30 stations with voltage levels of 132-kV.
Khalid Ghazay Attia, Director General, Electricity Transmission Company, Northern Region, Iraq said the new Mosul station would support the reconstruction and rebuilding of the Nineveh Governorate, recovering from years of war.
Mahmoud Hanafy, Siemens' Vice President-Grid Stabilisation, Middle East said the company is working on the installation of more than 14 stations across Iraq, and has delivered 35 high voltage transformers to the Ministry as part of Siemens Energy’s Roadmap for Iraq.
In 2019, Siemens and the Ministry of Electricity had signed an agreement to kick off the execution of the Iraq Roadmap.
(Writing by Majda Muhsen; Editing by Anoop Menon)
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