{"id":142761,"date":"2026-06-02T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:56:08","slug":"iraq-adds-new-power-supplies-from-turkiye-and-kurdistan-region-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142761\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq adds new power supplies from Turkiye and Kurdistan Region &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-02T22:33:26+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Mosul <\/p>\n<p>Iraq has brought new electricity supplies online through Turkiye<br \/>\nand the Kurdistan Region, adding around 1,200 megawatts to the national grid in<br \/>\nan effort to improve power availability during the summer, a local electricity<br \/>\nofficial in Nineveh told Shafaq News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 600 megawatts had recently entered Iraq\u2019s<br \/>\nnational grid through the Turkish interconnection line, while a similar amount<br \/>\nwas supplied through KAR Group in the Kurdistan Region, the source said, adding<br \/>\nthat Nineveh will receive about 8.5% of the additional power, with the<br \/>\nremainder distributed to other Iraqi provinces through the national network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese lines do not benefit Nineveh alone but support the<br \/>\nstability of Iraq\u2019s electricity system as a whole.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The additional supply is expected to improve <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Iraq-ranks-8th-globally-for-cheapest-electricity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">electricity<\/a><br \/>\nservices in Nineveh, where residents of Mosul are currently receiving between<br \/>\n14 and 16 hours of power per day, a level the source described as more stable<br \/>\nthan in previous periods.<\/p>\n<p>However, he cautioned that the current stability may not be<br \/>\nsustained, noting that rising temperatures and increased demand during the<br \/>\nsummer could affect supply hours in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Iraqi Electricity Minister Ali Saadi Waheeb<br \/>\nordered the formation of a central emergency operations room to address<br \/>\nchallenges expected during the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as Deputy Electricity Minister for<br \/>\nProduction Mohammed Nima recently warned that Iraq\u2019s power generation system is<br \/>\nfacing \u201cvery critical conditions\u201d due to declining domestic gas production and<br \/>\na 50% reduction in gas imports from Iran amid ongoing regional conflict and<br \/>\ntensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-02T22:33:26+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Mosul Iraq has brought new electricity supplies online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,2032,94,46721,1888],"class_list":["post-142761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-electricity","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-adds-new-power-supplies-from-turkiye-and-kurdistan-region","tag-supply"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116682987029488548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}