Abdul Mahdi discusses a huge electrical project in Iraq with GE

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Prime Minister , Adel Abdul Mahdi received CEO of General Electric Company for Renewable Energy (GE Renewables), Jérôme Pécresse and his accompanying delegation.

The Prime Minister affirmed his support for GE's projects in the electricity sector, including the transport networks project, which the Iraqi government intends to accelerate this year, that includes the construction and rehabilitation of 23 secondary stations capacity of 400/132 and 132/33 and mobile stations, provide more than 3000 jobs in Projects of secondary stations and transportation networks throughout Iraq, contributing to support the network to improve the delivery of electricity to more than four million homes throughout Iraq, as well as make considerable resources into the local economy through secondary contracts for implementation.

The CEO of GE Renewable Energy, Jérôme Pécresse expressed the company's intention to establish the GE Network Academy in cooperation with the Ministry of Electricity and the Ministry of Higher Education, which will train and graduate many students , engineers and prepare them for integration into the labor market.