Turkey plans to send a floating power station to Gaza to provide vital electricity to the troubled region.
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said that the electricity
generating vessel would be sent as soon as Gaza’s port facilities had been
upgraded.
Yildiz met this week Palestinian Energy Minister Omar Kittaneh
and afterwards told a press conference in Ankara: “The Palestinians have
contacted the Israelis concerning the dispatching of the platform and there has
been no adverse reaction from the Israeli side.”
The floating power plant will be provided by Turkish company
Karadeniz Holding, which is the only shipbuilder in the world to make such
vessels, which can operate both on liquid fuels as well as natural gas.
Karadeniz – which also operates traditional power plants in
Turkey – has five operational power ships and another eight under construction,
which will bring the total capacity of the fleet to around 2000 MW.
Gaza
regularly suffers blackouts and its only power plant is routinely switched off
for weeks at a time because of fuel shortages.
maashaallah Allah will reward them
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