A new power plant with a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) in Iraq's Kurdistan has commenced operation, a government official said.

Diyar Baban, a spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity in the Kurdistan Regional Government told Zawya Projects that work on the 2 x 150 MW Khabat thermal power plant in Erbil started in 2012 but the project got stalled due to the economic crisis and war with ISIS.

The Khabat plant will burn fuel oil/diesel to generate 1,600 GWh per year, he said, adding that the project was funded by South Korea's National Oil Company under an oil-for-infrastructure deal signed in 2008 with Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Region.

(Writing by Majda Muhsen; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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