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Saudi Arabia, Iraq Sign Electricity Interconnection Agreement

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Iraqi Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar sign the agreement (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Saudi Arabia and Iraq signed the executive report on the principles of the electricity interconnection agreement between the two countries implementing the memorandum of understanding signed at the beginning of 2022.

The electrical interconnection will link from Arar in northern Saudi Arabia to Yusufiya near Baghdad and have a capacity of 1,000 megawatts and a voltage of 400 kilovolts, with a length of 435 km.

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