Basra electricity department receives 42 new generators

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Basra electricity department on Wednesday received 42 new generators with a total cost $500,000, the spokesman for the supporting Basra reconstruction operations committee said. “The electricity department in Basra received a fourth batch of generators from a local company worth 564 million Iraqi dinars,” Rashied al-Fahd told IraqiNews.com. “The total cost of generators arrived in Basra reach 2.250 billion Iraqi dinars,” he added. Basra, 590 km (340 miles) south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has an estimated metropolitan population of 2,300,000 in 2008. SH (P) 1