AMMAN — the government on Monday announced the appointment of international technical consulting company “CESI,” to investigate the reasons behind a nation-wide blackout that effected the Kingdom on Friday, prompting ire from the
Jordan Engineers Association (JEA).
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“We are aware that there has been a technical malfunction in the Jordanian-Egyptian electrical line, yet we need full research to answer all the questions and find out the reasons of the blackout,” Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Halah Zawati told Al-Ghad.
Malek Amaireh, head of electrical engineering at the JEA, was taken by surprise by the decision, he told Al-Ghad, adding: “We have sufficient Jordanian expertise in the technical field, up to global standards, to investigate the technical and administrative issue which led to the blackout.”
Director General at the
National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) Amjad Al-Rawashdeh, however, indicated that the company needs “deeper electrical analysis of the events to find out the reasons of the blackout.”
Rawashdeh briefed the Lower House on Monday on the working mechanism of the electrical grid and Friday’s blackout, emphasizing that “the events are recorded as if they were registered in an airplane’s black box.”
According to CESI’s website, the foreign company “specializes in shaping the future of electricity through innovative and ad hoc solutions to clients.”
During a press conference after the outage, the government explained the power outage as a “sudden electrical malfunction that struck the grid between Jordan and Egypt.”
According to NEPCO’s website, Jordan is interconnected with Egypt’s power grid via an underwater cable in the south, across the Gulf of Aqaba.
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