IRAQ

 
Iraqi Electricity Industry Poised For 20,000MW Lift-Off
 
By Rafiq Latta
 
At long last, Iraq’s ailing power sector appears set to make the major generation capacity expansion needed to address the crippling electricity cuts that have been costing the country’s economy around $40bn/year.
 
Iraq’s post-2003 power sector has seen a lot of false dawns, scandals and broken promises. The failure to improve the chronic power cuts has proved a...