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Iraq signs electricity deal with French firm Alstom
7 August 2010: Alstom on 3 August 2010 signed an MoU with Iraq to build a power plant in southern Iraq.
The company is also set to renovate an existing power plant in the holy Shiite city of Najaf that it built 35 years ago. The company has agreed to build a 1,200-MWpower station between Najaf and the southern port city of Basra, and to rehabilitate a 180-megawatt plant in Najaf that it built in 1975. The agreement also provides for training of Iraqi engineers and technicians.
Source: Zawya