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Iraq’s draft electricity law: what’s right, what’s wrong?. By Luay Al-Khateeb

The government wants to expand power generation capacity rapidly, but proposed new legislation is inadequate for the task, say Luay Al-Khatteeb and Harry Istepanian IRAQ's electricity sector has been in crisis since 2003, with citizens still facing long hours of blackouts despite the government's mammoth spending on electricity over the past 10 years. The sector has underperfo

In the second half of February 2014, Iraq’s government approved the award of two licences for private investment in two combined cycle electricity generation plants totalling 4,500 MW in capacity. More information on the particulars of these deals was revealed by senior members of the government at a conference in Dubai that same month reported in the specialist media. The bas