July 31 (SeeNews) - Turkey's Calik Energy plans to complete and power up the 750 megawatt (MW) Nainawa gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Iraq's Mosul by September 2013, Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi reported on Wednesday, quoting the official in charge of the project.
As many as two of the six turbines of the $388.5 million (294 million euro) plant have already been put into operation and the remaining four turbines will be powered up after the Ramadan holiday, Abdullah Bas told Anadolu Ajansi.
Another power plant build by Calik Energy in Iraq, the Karbala al-Khairat, operates at 1,000 MW capacity with eight turbines. Two more turbines at the plant will be fired up after the Ramadan holiday, raising the installed operational capacity of the facility to 1,250 MW, Abdullah Bas added.
The two power plants built by Calik Energy will cover 1/8 of Iraq's electricity demand, according to Bas.
Calik Energy, part of Turkish diversified holding company Calik Holding, built the two power plants under turn-key contracts awarded by Iraq's ministry of energy, according to information on Calik Energy's website.
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