KAR Khormala Electricity
The KAR Company was awarded Investment License No. 60 by the Board of Investment (KRG) to build a power plant with a capacity of 1000 mw, which can be extended in the future. The Project was supervised directly by the Ministry of Electricity in (KRG) in three stages.
FIRST STAGE: FOUR SIMPLE CYCLE UNITS CAPACITY 640 MW
The Khormala power plant project is one of the strategic projects in Iraq particularly in the Kurdistan Region. A contract was signed with specialized companies to construct this station like SIEMENS / German and ABB Companies to design, supply and supervise the work.
This work was carried out by local cadres under the supervision of the suppling companies. This led to the provision of job opportunities for engineers, technicians, and workers. This has a significant role to sort out the problems of the shortage of electricity in the Kurdistan Region and the other provinces in Iraq.
SECOND STAGE: EXPANDING THE STATION THROUGH ADDING TWO GENERATING UNITS SIMPLE CYCLE WITH A CAPACITY OF 320 MW:
During the second stage, the company expanded the Khormala power station in collabration with Siemens/German and ABB Companies to design, supply, and supervised the erection of two additional turbines (the capacity of each turbine is 160 MW) that operate on gas to raise the production capacity of the station up to 960 MW.
THIRD STAGE: CONSTRUCTION OF GENERATION UNITS COMBINED CYCLE WITH A CAPACITY OF 450 MW:
The significance of this stage of the project is that the electrical power is produced economically from the heat of six turbines of the first and second stage. As the heat produced by turbines is drawn and transferred to boilers instead of releasing it in the open air, it can be utilized for water heating and converting it to vapor required to revolve the turbines.
The first and second stages of the project are currently in operation and production, while the third stage is under implementation.
The total production capacity of the station after completing the third stage is expected to reach 1320 MW.
