The President's power station.. good news dispels the darkness of Aden .
English - Wednesday 11 August 2021 الساعة 10:11 am
NewsYemen, Al Ain News:
There is good news on the horizon that the power outage crisis in the city of Aden and its neighboring governorates is approaching, which has reached more than ten hours a day.
Three years after the start of work in it, the President Electric Power Station in Aden (southern Yemen) is preparing to operate its experimental services for citizens.
On Monday, the shipment of fuel intended to operate the station's generators arrived, after the engineering and technical teams completed connecting the overhead and ground transmission lines throughout the city of Aden.
The oil port of the Aden Refineries Company, in the Buriqa District, received the "Pearl Crater" ship, which was loaded with more than 3,000 tons of crude fuel, coming from Al-Nashima Port in Shabwa Governorate.
The main station, whose implementation is supervised by the state-owned Petromasila Company, produces 500 megawatts of energy, capable of covering the city of Aden and the neighboring governorates.
The plant is scheduled to operate in its first phase with a capacity of 264 megawatts, with the rest of the power to enter later in the second phase.
Operating this amount of energy would overcome the deficit in electricity generation, which the southern governorates of Yemen suffer from, especially during the summer of each year.
During the reception of the crude fuel vessel, the First Undersecretary of Aden Governorate, Muhammad Shazly, explained that the station project is a strategic achievement. It will contribute to alleviating the suffering of electricity for citizens in Aden and neighboring governorates.
For his part, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, Abdul Hakim Fadel, stressed the importance of the station (first stage) of 264 megawatts, which is currently in the trial operation phase in preparation for its entry into service, pointing out the importance of moving towards starting the second phase of the station to reach 500 megawatts to reduce electricity service interruptions.
The importance of the event lies in the fact that the arrival of this batch heralds the imminent operation of the strategic station, which the state sees in the success of its operation as a victory and an important step in the footsteps of recovering the energy deficit problem.
Citizens see the operation of the station as a way to overcome the long suffering in the field of electricity, with the announcement of the station’s operation and partial entry into service, before moving on to the second phase in which the station will reach a generating capacity of 500 megawatts.
The entry of this station will contribute to strengthening the state's service and economic capacity, and will support the current and upcoming efforts of the Central Bank in managing monetary and banking policy.
The operation of this station will save the bank's treasury millions of dollars of foreign exchange that was drained in the purchase of diesel fuel, and the costs of leased power stations, which have become a huge burden on the state.
The Yemeni president had directed about three years ago, during his stay in Aden, the establishment of a crude-fueled station, with a total generating capacity of 500 megawatts, covering the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, and Al-Dhalea.
The president signed a contract with the American General Electric Company to manufacture generators for the station, through the company's factories located in France, and a British transport company delivered the generators to the port of Aden.
The local Petromasila company supervised the process of equipping the plant, following up on the manufacture of its generators, and transferring it to its site in the Al-Haswa area in the Buriqa district, at a cost of half a billion US dollars, with Yemeni funding.
During the past three years, the site of the station was prepared, and the preparation of the network of connections, power transmission lines and internal cables in the city of Aden was completed, through giant towers, and land lines.
With the arrival of fuel intended for the station, which operates on crude fuel, the operation will take place during the coming days, providing relative stability for public energy in Aden and neighboring governorates.
