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• Iraq’s Besmaya Power Plant: When the Biggest Gets Even Bigger

  The Besmaya Power Plant, located southeast of Baghdad, currently is capable of delivering 2,500 megawatts (MW) of electricity, with another 500 MW expected to come online by late 2019 / early 2020 as the second phase of the project reaches completion. The plant is playing a key role in...

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• Through Steps Big and Small, GE is Helping to Build Iraq’s Electricity Supply

  Since 2011, GE has helped bring more than 14,000 megawatts of power online across Iraq. However, beyond just adding capacity, strengthening the power sector also entails ensuring that these plants keep operating efficiently and reliably so that electricity is available whenever and...

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• New Substation Can Connect Up To 1,000 MW To Iraq’s National Grid

  Standing 35 km west of Baghdad, not far from the banks of the Tigris River, is a new substation that can help connect up to 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity to Iraq’s national grid. The Baghdad West North gas-insulated substation supports the gov-ernment’s goal to decrease...

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• Trainings and Workshops: Building Healthcare Expertise in Saudi Arabia and Iraq

  What are Middle East healthcare leaders thinking about these days? Recent GE workshops give an idea: healthcare outsourcing, medical imaging, building empathy, and patient customer relations.

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• Power Plants and a Belt Linking Beijing, Bhikki and Baghdad

  At a forum for more than 600 power-sector experts in Beijing, the discussion, for a time, focused on Iraq. Elsewhere at the event, GE presented a clean coal project in Dubai, and a combined-cycle power plant in Pakistan. Why these topics in faraway China?

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• A Powerful Plan for Iraq

  Through both prosperous and challenging times, GE has worked alongside its customers and partners to help build a power infrastructure in Iraq that today represents more than half the country’s total active power generation capacity. Building on this track record, the Ministry of...

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• ‘With an Engineering Mindset’ A Recent Graduate Helps Build Iraq’s Power Capacity

  It was 2004 when a then-15-year-old Mahmood Wael Saeed was standing in his family’s house in Baghdad watching a handyman trying to fix a window lock that had come apart.

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• Third-Generation Iraqi Engineer: ‘I’m Helping my Country Get Better and Better’

  With so much hard work required in the years ahead to rebuild and expand Iraq’s power infrastructure, it’s essential to have people like GE engineer Ameer Al-Dafaie on the job. Ameer is an Iraqi who, like so many of his fellow compatriots, has shown unyielding determination, hard...

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• GE Wind Turbines Fan Jordan’s Clean Energy Future

  Jordan is the Arab world’s third largest producer of non-hydroelectric renewable energy and expects to quadruple current renewable generation capacity to reach 1,700 megawatts (MW) by 2019. A new wind farm, the first in Jordan to use GE wind turbines, will help strengthen these clean...

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• When Temperatures Soar to 50°C, this GE Power Solution Helps Basra’s Fans Whirl Longer

  GE Power has just completed a technology upgrade at the 500 megawatts (MW) Najibiya Power Plant in southern Iraq that can help each of the four gas turbines at the site run for up to an additional three months per year when the plant is powered by heavy fuel oil (HFO).

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