AMMAN — The volume of electric power exported
by the Kingdom during the past year has decreased by 9 percent compared to the
same period in 2020.
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According to recent data from the
National Electric Power Company (NEPCO), the volume of electric energy produced until the end of
December 2021 reached 172.9 gigawatt hours (GWh), compared to 190.1GWh during
the same period of the previous year.
Of the energy exported, the total that was exported to
the Jerusalem Electricity Company in Palestine amounted to 166.8GWh, compared
to 183.9GWh during 2020, a decrease of 9.3 percent.
The volume of energy exported to the Iraqi border
complex at Traibeel also decreased by 1.6GWh until the end of December 2021 to
6.1GWh from 6.2GWh during the same period of the previous year.
On Wednesday, Jordan is set to sign an agreement to
export electric power to Lebanon through the Syrian electric network, according
to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
Under the agreement, Lebanon will receive about 150
megawatts (MW) of electricity from midnight to 6am, and 250MW during the rest
of the day.
Jordan also agreed with Egypt last month to raise the
electric capacity between the two countries from 500MW, at present, to 1,000MW,
to enable the two states to exchange energy with the countries of the region.
This comes at a time when NEPCO registered an increase in last year’s sales by
2.2 percent over their output during the same period of the previous year,
according to the same figures.
According to these figures, the total sales until the
end of December 2021 amounted to 19,280GWh, compared to 18,863GWh during the
same period of the previous year.
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