c/energy · by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca · 75d

As hot summer, blackouts loom, Iraq looks to solar power

https://www.dw.com/en/as-hot-summer-blackouts-loom-iraq-looks-to-solar-power/a-77438162

With so much sunlight, Iraq is very well-positioned to use solar power to help fix its annual summer electricity crisis. So why is it that Iraq's government has only recently started to take solar power seriously?

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sodalite@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 75d

god i wish that were us

evenglow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 75d

Statistics indicate that the trend toward solar in Iraq started in 2024 and is likely accelerating. According to the Arabic-language, specialist media outlet, Attaqa, Iraq's imports of Chinese solar panels more than quadrupled between 2024 and 2025. They rose from 0.43 gigawatts to 1.89 gigawatts, and made Iraq the fifth-largest importer among Arab countries.

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria import more Chinese solar panels than Iraq, but no other country's imports grew as much as Iraq's in that period.

"Solar cannot be left entirely to the market, but it also cannot wait for the government alone."

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d (2 replies)

If its Iraq the USA destabilized and enabled corruption after the invasion. Now the government is basically a money funnel system for the UK and foreign countries. It is a shit hole of a country.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 73d (1 reply)

It is a shit hole of a country.

like the US then, the scale of corruption there is breathtaking. ?

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d

No because the US and terrorist splinter cell didnt tear up entire cities