The Chairman of the Board of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GCOL), Wiam Al-Abdalli, met on Friday with the Chairman of the Board and Director of the Algerian Sonelgas, Chaher Boulakhras, in Tripoli, so as to discuss cooperation between the two companies in the area of electrical energy.

Al-Abdalli and Boulakhras discussed arrangements for mobile units to be put in place in Tripoli to back up the electricity generation plants and also prospects of cooperation in the area of maintenance and power transmission and electricity link up between the two countries.

During a press conference, Boulakhras said that the talks have yielded an agreement to supply the Libya electricity comapny with power in the summer of 2021.

According to Boulakhras the agreement also included hiring gas turbines in the coming days with a capacity of 180 and 200 megawatts.