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\"Aerial_view_of_Mosul_Dam\"<\/a>Who would have thought that in a country built on oil there would be a full blown energy crisis?\u00a0 Yet that is the situation in Iraq today.\u00a0 Many places get a few hours of electricity a day.\u00a0 When the power comes back on naturally everyone switches everything back on and the grid cannot cope and goes down again.\u00a0 Of course Iraq’s energy crisis does not affect everyone, the rich all have their own private generators.\u00a0 Those who suffer most in the 50 degree C heat are the poorest.<\/p>\n

The reason for the energy crisis.\u00a0 Several fold.\u00a0 The infrastructure is old, dating from the time of Saddam.\u00a0 Another complication is parts of Iraq are under the control of Isis.\u00a0 But the main reason is corruption.\u00a0 Iraq is not on the face of it short of money and major work was supposed to have been started by now on grid renewal.\u00a0 The problem is that money seems to have gone elsewhere.\u00a0 In a bizarre twist I suppose an outcome of the compromise necessary in Iraq’s fledgling democracy each ministry is run by a party or group.\u00a0 Not only does this ensure corruption but means that the oil ministry won’t sell to the electricity ministry due to unpaid debts.<\/p>\n

Iraq naturally gets most of its electricity from oil and gas although there is quite a lot of hydro capacity (in theory).\u00a0 The Mosul dam (above) was briefly captured by Isis last year but was recaptured.\u00a0 As an aside its very surprising that Middle Eastern countries are not going for solar in a big way, after all the one thing you guarantee is sunshine and not a cloud in the sky!\u00a0 The reason has got to be political.\u00a0 However the ultimate solution to Iraq’s energy crisis is not infrastructure in the first case, but an end to corruption and that is far harder.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n

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