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to the untrained eye to rahman mosque .

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Substation doesn't look like much of

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this pile of gray metal boxes . In fact

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represents a $1.2 million investment by

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the United States and seven months

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worth of work by the US Army Corps of

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Engineers , gulf region vision all to

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help bring more reliable power to the

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cart area of Baghdad province .

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Basically what it does is it takes a

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high voltage power from the from the

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from the transmission lines and steps

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it down to a lower voltage for

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distribution out to the neighborhoods .

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The construction here has replaced old

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and unreliable transformers and

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switchgear and includes the

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installation of 15 new 11 kilovolts ,

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underground power distributors and new

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underground power distribution cabling

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was fantastic . All that is left to be

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done is uh is what we call

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commissioning . That's where we partner

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with the Ministry of Electricity to

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actually bring the substation online .

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Um check it out , make sure that it's

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within regulation . Um and then power

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of neighborhood U . S . Army Corps of

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Engineers have completed construction

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of 89 substations like this one across

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the country of Iraq affecting 825,000

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homes . These substations may not look

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like much but they're turning life on

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across the country and illuminating a

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brighter future for a democratic Iraq

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for US Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq

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on julie cooper