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Mar 04 2008

Electricity to Jericho

The National Electricity Power Company ( NEPCO ) said it started supplying the West Bank city of Jericho with its needs of electricity as of Monday.

This ends the delay in the implementation of the plan, which began mid-2007 following a request by the Palestinian Authority during a meeting between HM King Abdullah II and President Mahmoud Abbas. "All preparations have been completed by the contractors to transmit electricity from the Jordanian grid through the Sweimeh Electricity Power Plant in the Jordan Valley to Jericho," NEPCO Director General, Ahmad Hiasat said.

"The first phase of the project included the building up of double air grids, 30km in Jordan and eight kilometers in Palestine that will link the Sweimeh plant to the under-construction Sea-Surface Electricity Plant in Jericho.Work on the second phase began in parallel with the first phase and is expected to be concluded by August 2008," Hiasat added.

© The Star 2008

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