(MENAFN) According to Iraqi News Agency (INA), the UAE and Iraq inked a deal to build five electric power plants using solar energy.
Moreover, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar) and the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity and the National Investment Authority inked the deal for the plants.
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, the media spokesman for the Prime Minister of Iraq, declared in a statement that the first phase is going to include the production and generation of 1,000 MW out of a total capacity of 2,000 MW.
As the first stage taken by the Iraqi government to depend on on alternative, clean, and renewable energies in the production of electrical energy, and to encounter the country's energy needs, the step was taken.
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