On Wednesday, Prime Minister Bishr Al-Khasawneh and his Palestinian counterpart, Muhammad Shtayyeh, inaugurated the Al-Rama Electricity Transfer Station to provide the Palestinians with electric power.

The Al-Rama power station in the southern Jordan Valley / Dead Sea area will raise the quantities of electricity exported from Jordan to the Palestinian network from 40 megawatts to 80 megawatts.

The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Al-Kharabsheh, said in previous statements that the Al-Rama plant project, which exports electricity to the Palestinian network, is based on what was previously accomplished to provide the Palestinians with electricity, and is fully implemented by the cadres of the National Electric Power Company.

On January 15, 2020, the National Electric Power Company signed an agreement to increase the quantities of energy exported to Palestine within the framework of a cooperation project that began in 2008, according to which the Palestinian side will purchase approximately 40 megawatts of electricity from the Jordanian network to be used to light the city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley.

The first phase of the project includes the construction of a 132/33 kW transformer station in the Jordanian-Palestinian border area (Al-Rama area), and it consists of a transfer station (6 cells of automatic breakers of 132 kW and a transformer of 132/33 kV with a capacity of 80 MVA and 3 breaker cells). 33 kV mechanism).

As for the second phase, according to which the Jerusalem electricity will be supplied, which feeds the areas of Jerusalem, Ramallah and Al-Bireh in a way that enhances access to the outskirts of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, it includes the addition of a 132/33 kV transformer with a capacity of 80 MW and the addition of 33 kV automatic circuit breakers, 6 in Ramah transfer station and construction of a transmission line on voltage 33 extending from Ramah transfer to the Jordanian-Palestinian borders.

(The kingdom)