Arab league committee look into electricity-gas linkage

The Arab League's General Secretariat saw Tuesday the beginning of a meeting for the Steering Committee of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) on electricity and natural gas linkage. The meeting , which will take place over the next two days, under the chairmanship of Qatar, will discuss linking the production sites of gas-rich countries to power stations in gas-poor countries. The participants will also discuss the committee's work in acquiring data on the electricity sector in the Arab world. They also will discuss the strategies that Arab countries have placed for the electricity sector 2012-2030.