AMMAN — The Lower House’s panel on energy and mineral resources meeting today, Monday May 24, to discuss the nationwide power outage that took place on Friday. The committee will investigate reasons for the outage that left all governorates without power for around two hours.
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Three days later, the reason behind the outage still remains unclear. A government press conference pointed to an electrical malfunction between
Jordan and Egypt, an explanation that Egyptian officials denied, while others speculated about a shutdown in electrical generators and cited administrative failure by the
National Electrical Power Company.
The ambiguity surrounding the malfunction has raised some questions about the lack of transparency of some of the committees doing the investigating, causing confusion and allowing for rumors to spread.
Costs of the power outage are estimated at JD15 million.
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