Company contracted to set up hydroelectric power station

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Wednesday signed a contract worth over $2 million U.S. dollars with a Turkish company to set up a dam and a hydroelectric power station north of Duhuk city. “The minister of electricity, Hoshyar Siwili, signed a $2.3 million contract with the Turkish Falcon to establish a dam and an electricity generating station with a capacity of 72 MW,” the head of the media department in the ministry, Shamal Nouri, told IraqiNews.com. Also spelled Duhok, Dohuk Dehok or Dahok; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village.” SS (P) 1