Iraq's Kurdistan awards 300 MW of solar projects
- A group of business will certainly construct 3 solar parks with a combined ability of 300 MW in Iraq's self-governing region of Kurdistan after winning a tender just recently, the Arab nation's official newspaper Al Sabaah reported on Wednesday.
Kurdistan's Ministry of Electricity has actually picked 3 neighborhood business that will certainly construct the solar plants each of 100 MW in the governorates of Duhok, Erbil as well as Sulaymaniyah, a rep of the ministry informed the paper.
The projects will be carried out within 6 months beginning in very early 2022 as well as the electricity from the parks will certainly be fed right into the general public grid.
The 3 projects belong to Kurdistan's lasting plan to create 900 MW of clean energy by 2030.
Apart from the large-scale projects, there are personal houses and factories in the area that have actually currently set up photovoltaic or pv systems on roofs as well as the excess electricity from these systems can be fed into the grid, the ministry authorities said. The electricity that is provided to the grid will be computed with digital meters and its value will be subtracted from the electricity bills of the proprietors of the solar systems.
