US Company to erect power station in Babel

Babel (IraqiNews.com) The local government in Babel province agreed to conclude a contract with a US company to set up a plant to generate electricity power in the province.

Babel Governor, Mohamed al-Masoudi, said during a joint press conference with the Commissioned Director of the US company [APIC Gibson] held in Babylon tourism resort on Saturday, attended by the correspondent of Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) that “We agreed with the US [APIC Gibson] company specialized in the production of electric power to install generating units, each ranging between 15-32 MW and the energy produced in these units would be allocated to the Electric Department of the province.”

He added that “Negotiations are still going on between Iraqi specialists in the province and director of the company to install these units either through investment or by paying the amount from the regional development budget,” noting that “The US company will install generating units within 90 days.”

For his part, the Commissioned Director of the US [APIC Gibson] Company said that “The company aspires to build plants for electric power, depending on the workforce of the Iraqi engineers and technicians, and the company is in the process of establishing civil works for the preliminary work of the project as well as providing a training center for technical and engineering Iraqi staff to enable them to manage stations inside Iraq.”