Yemen at conference on MENA electricity in Cairo

SANA'A, May 23 (Saba) - Yemen is
taking part in the International Conference on Electricity in the Middle East and
North
Africa, MENA, in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
Upon departure for the meeting that lasts five days, Director General of the Public
Electrical Corporation Mohammad Abdul Momin Motahar siad the conference will
discuss
a number of issues related to electricity in the MENA and the possibility of
providing logistical and technical assistance to regional states that need to
improve the services
of electrical power.
He also said that Yemen will present a work paper on energy projects and that
will focus on trying to get financial, technical and material support to
increase its
electrical power capacity.
The paper will furthermore review the stages of power projects in the country
including the one to generate wind energy commenced in Makha.
The first phase of the project costs $ 60 million provided by the government, the
World Bank and the French Development Agency.
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