The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Monday delivered four electrical transformers to Gaza in a bid to upgrade the coastal territory's sole power plant. The UNDP, in a statement from its Gaza office, said it brought four transformers and other electrical equipment into the territory as part of a project valued at $3.3 million dollars. “Installation will take around two months,” the statement said. “After it is completed, the capacity of the power station will be raised from 80 megawatts (MW) to 120 MW and will be able to handle the full productive output of the Gaza power station.” Gaza frequently suffers power outages but has recently experienced the worst electricity and fuel crisis in memory. According to the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the station's capacity was already hampered by several factors, including the destruction of six transformers in a 2006 Israeli air strike.
