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Felesteen Online · 2017-01-23
An interview by Nabil Sanunu for Felesteen newspaper with Omar Shaban, director of PalThink, on Gaza's electricity crisis. He calls for rescinding the 20-year contract signed in 2000 with the Gaza power plant, which did not pass through legitimate channels and whose fixed monthly payment of $2–2.5 million is owed regardless of output, citing suspicions of corruption; he proposes buying ready electricity from Israel at 45 agorot a kilowatt-hour instead of 1.20 shekels from the plant, investing in renewables and the regional interconnection, and taking the sector out of political polarisation through an independent civil oversight body.
An interview by Nabil Sanunu for Felesteen newspaper with Omar Shaban, director of PalThink, on Gaza's electricity crisis. He calls for rescinding the 20-year contract signed in 2000 with the Gaza power plant, which did not pass through legitimate channels and whose fixed monthly payment of $2–2.5…