“The Ministry of Electricity, represented by the Directorate-General for projects of power transmission signed a contract with Metash Turkish company to equip it by 3112 high pressure towers to transmit electricity ,” ministry’s’ spokesman , Musab al-Muallem said in a statement received by “Shafaq News”.

“The value of the contract is amounted to 48 million $ in an equipping duration of 300 days,” he said.

The Ministry of Electricity has revealed last Tuesday, that the rate of power provision for 13 provinces including the capital Baghdad ranges from 14 to 20 hours per day, while the provision of Kirkuk and Maysan provinces is 24 hours.

Dhi -Qar province witnessed during the past few days hundreds of residents marched to protest against poor services and the continued power outages, threatening to continue it if not respond to their demands, to be followed a similar demonstration in Najaf.

Iraq has suffered a shortage of electricity since the beginning of 1990, as electricity rationing hours have increased after 2003 in Baghdad and the provinces, because of the old stations in addition to sabotage that the stations witnessed over the past years.