{"id":113707,"date":"2017-09-12T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=113707"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:26:33","slug":"syria-iran-sign-mou-on-electricity-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=113707","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Iran sign MoU on electricity cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, SANA \u2013 A Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in electricity sector was signed between Syria and Iran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The memo provides for establishing a new power generation station in Lattakia with a total capacity of 450 MW, establishing 5 gas units with a capacity of 125 MW in Banias, in addition to evaluating the damage caused to Aleppo Thermal Station and rehabilitating the 1st and 5th gas units in Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>It also stipulated for rehabilitating and reactivating the Electrical Supervisory Control Center and Data Acquisition (ESCADA) in Damascus, rehabilitating the 90-MW al-Taim generating plant in Deir Ezzor and improving the performance of Jandar Generating Plant in Homs.<\/p>\n<p>The memo was signed by Electricity Minister Mohammad Zuhair Kharboutli and Director General of the General Establishment for Electricity Generation Hammoud Ramadan on the Syrian side and Iran&#8217;s Deputy Minister of Energy Sattar Mahmoudi and MAPNA Group Chairman and CEO, Aliabadi on the Iranian side.<\/p>\n<p>In the same context, Eng. Ramadan and Aliabadi singed two contracts on importing 5 gas units to Aleppo City with capacity of 125 MW and rehabilitating and improving the capacity of the 34 MW Gas Unit in Banias power station to become 38 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Kharboutli\u00a0discussed with the Advisor to the First Vice President of Iran, head of the Committee for Development of Iranian-Syrian Economic Relations Saeed Ohadi\u00a0means to overcome obstacles facing the investment of Iranian companies in Syria during the reconstruction phase<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Ambassador in Tehran Dr. Adnan Mahmoud attended the signature of the MoU and the two contracts.<\/p>\n<p>R.Raslan\/Ghossoun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, SANA \u2013 A Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in electricity sector was signed between Syria and Iran on Tuesday. The memo provides for establishing a new power generation station in Lattakia with a total capacity of 450 MW, establishing 5 gas units with a capacity of 125 MW in Banias, in addition to evaluating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485,22,106],"tags":[14239,14236,852,14238,14240,6042,14237,3410],"class_list":["post-113707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economic","category-slide","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-aliabadi","tag-electricity-sector","tag-iran","tag-irans-deputy-minister-of-energy-sattar-mahmoudi","tag-mapna-group-chairman-and-ceo","tag-mou","tag-saeed-ohadi","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}