South and Central Iraq hit the outages of electricity caused by extreme heat. Technical teams are already renewing supplies, the Ministry of Energy informed.
The southern and central regions of Iraq on Monday affected the outage of electricity after the sudden shutdown of the power plant in the Governorate Anbár as a result of the heat. The deliveries have already been gradually renewed, the Ministry of Energy reported there. TASR reports this, according to the report of Reuters and DPA.
“This afternoon there was an emergency failure of the current in the transmission lines, which caused extensive outages in the national power network,” the representative of the Ministry of Energy said in a statement. “Our technical teams are currently working to eliminate the failure … The supply of electricity has been gradually renewed and the service will be restored completely over the next few hours,” he added.
The heat in Iraq
Representative of the Energy Department for DPA specified that the outage of electricity was caused by a technical failure due to increasing electric load. According to DPA, on Monday they recorded a temperature between 47 and 50 degrees Celsius on the middle and southern part of Iraq.
In recent years, protests have broke out in the country against poor quality services in the field of electricity and water supply. The guilt for the inefficient system of electricity supply in the country was repeatedly attributed to corruption and lack of fuel needed to operate power plants from the US invasion in 2003, explains DPA.
