Baghdad The Chairman of the Ministerial Council for Energy, Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, announced that the government’s plans aimed at increasing and enhancing the national production of clean energy are proceeding.

He said during his sponsorship of the signing ceremony between the Ministry of Electricity and the UAE company Masdar on a contract to generate 2000 megawatts through the establishment of investment projects for solar energy in central and southern Iraq.

Ismail pointed out that Iraq is implementing a plan to replace clean energy instead of energy produced by fossil fuels, at a rate of (20-25) percent of the energy produced, which is equivalent to (10-12) kilowatts.

He added that signing with the UAE’s Masdar Company, which is one of the sober specialized international companies, is an important step for the development of the clean energy investment sector and the exploitation of solar energy in Iraq.

For his part, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the United Arab Emirates, Suhail Al Mazrouei, praised through the television circuit with the distinguished relations between the two brotherly countries, stressing his government’s support for bilateral cooperation projects in the clean energy generation sector, and that Masdar Company will harness all its technical and engineering capabilities to implement these projects.

While the head of the National Investment Commission, Suha Al-Najjar stressed the importance of the investment contract for clean energy generation with the UAE company Masdar, which achieves the government’s goals in obtaining clean energy at a lower cost, as well as adopting clean environment, health and safety standards, and Al-Najjar revealed the government’s plans to sign more contracts which contribute to the enhancement of generating energy, and to cover the local need.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency