Maeen: 50% of the electricity current in Aden is lost and we need (1500) megawatts to calm the country
English - Tuesday 12 October 2021 الساعة 08:37 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
Prime Minister of the internationally recognized government, Maeen Abdul-Malik, described the electricity file in the liberated governorates as a "black hole", referring to what is believed to be financial and administrative corruption in this sector, accusing consumers of not paying electricity service bills.
He said in a television interview on the official Yemeni satellite channel: "The citizen wants a service and does not pay, in exchange for the fact that if the service is cut off, he will go to buy generators and diesel at 20 times the cost provided by the state," considering this "a very strange thing," as he put it.
While stressing the continuation of support for the electricity sector without the rest of the other services, Abdul Malik revealed that the volume of losses in Aden is 50%, which he considered theft of electricity and a very big problem, adding: "These matters affect us even with the Saudi side regarding the continuation of the Saudi grant."
The Prime Minister explained that the structure of generating electricity with fuel is expensive in Yemen and should be changed, pointing out that there are areas with natural resources or gas, and that his government is in the process of arranging to invest in the field of electricity in some blocks in Hadhramaut Governorate.
He added, "The World Bank has completed the full assessment of this issue," noting that there is a discussion with brotherly countries and friends on the issue of financing large electricity projects. He said, "What we need now is in the range of 1500 megawatts until the country calms down."
He pointed out that the coastal areas need electricity, as it is very hot, such as Aden, Mukalla and Lahj, "which consumes very much because they have population centers."
Regarding future electricity projects, the Prime Minister pointed to the possibility of operating the Masila metro station next summer, and said: "In the short term, during this year, we have the President's station. The Masila metro station will be working, but it is still with high-cost crude oil."
He attributed the delay in the work of the station project to what he described as (instability), and said that they had completed preparing the transmission lines for the current for 30 years, as well as providing crude oil to the station, and that they were in the process of completing the internal distribution network in Aden, and if the station was completed during this winter, Abdul-Malik expected that Next summer will be better as "the installation of entire networks and as a station that will be a stabilizing factor inside the city of Aden."
