Iraq introduces 630 MW of solar projects in Al-Muthanna province

• Al-Muthanna Governorate in southerly Iraq is intending to set up two solar parks with an incorporated capacity of 630 MW to support the energy supply in the province.

Among the solar farms will have a capacity of 130 MW and also will be constructed in the Al-Khidhir area, assistant governor Hamid Al-Hassani informed the official Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabaah.

The local government has actually provided the land for the plant as well as the project has been assigned to the business that will apply it.

A 2nd project for a 500-MW solar farm has been awarded to Chinese business as well as they are currently dealing with it, Al-Hassani said. The center will certainly be built on a location of 8,000 dunams (2,000 hectares) near the Samawa combined-cycle nuclear power plant.

The two projects are the most recent in a series of efforts that Iraq unveiled lately as the Arab country intends to have 12 GW of renewables generation capacity by the end of this decade. According to US-based Global Energy Screen, Iraq has 5.75 GW of prospective solar projects.