200 MW of power from Kuwait to Basra

KUWAIT: Iraq’s ministry of electricity yesterday announced building transmission towers for 50 km between Kuwait and Iraq to provide the Iraqi city of Basra with over 200 megawatts of electricity. The ministry’s official spokesperson Musab Al-Modarres told Iraq News Agency that the new towers will join service soon. Notably, Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water had announced in December 2017 that an agreement was made with Iraq to form a joint technical team to study linking Iraq’s power grid to the unified Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grid. In a statement he made last year, former minister Essam Al-Marzouq predicted that Kuwait’s power production will reach 39,000 megawatts by 2035 and pointed out that Kuwait is considering exporting power to Iraq.

New projects

Ministry of Public Works’ (MPW) Undersecretary Awatif Al-Ghunaim said several projects will be concluded and handed over this year, including the new education and awqaf ministries’ buildings. Ghunaim added that MPW launched its 2035 strategy two days earlier, which includes all projects underway and future ones that will help achieve the sought development.