Turkey resumes exporting electricity to Iraq

The Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alp Arslan Bayraktar, announced that his country will resume exporting electricity to Iraq, starting yesterday. Bayraktar said in a post on the X platform today: 'As of yesterday, we have resumed exporting electricity to Iraq, with which we will contribute to the prosperity and peace of our region through the Development Road Project.' He added: "Through the investments we will make, we will make the Development Road project an energy road as well." Iraq will be supplied with electrical energy from Turkey via the link line, which is 115 kilometers long and has a capacity of 300 megawatts, and will be used to provide supplies to three regions in northern Iraq. It is noteworthy that Iraq has been suffering for decades from the crisis of electricity shortages as a result of successive wars and the instability of the security situation in the country. The crisis becomes more hard in the summer due to frequent power outages, coinciding with the rise in temp eratures and reaching 48 degrees Celsius in some areas. Iraq currently produces between 19 and 21 thousand megawatts of electrical energy, while the actual need exceeds 30 thousand, which leads to frequent power outages amid the suffering of the population. Source: National Iraqi News Agency