


Volume 20 No 10 (2022)
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Iraq's electrical energy shortage and potential solutions
Abdal-Razak Shehab Hadi, Adnan Alamili, Ali AbdyasserKadhum, MohammedChessab Mahdi
Abstract
Iraq suffers from a major shortage in the supply of electric power for several reasons, such as
wars, the economic sanctions, in addition to obsolescence of generation stations. The demand
increases by 10% annually, which aggravates the problem and increases the size of the gap
between supplied energy and demanded energy.The treatments taken by successive
administrations since 2003 until now do not meet ambition, and they cannot address the
shortage for several reasons, the most important of which are administrative corruption and
poor planning. Suitable and available options have been reviewed to fill the shortage in
electric power and keep pace with the increasing demand for it. The most important of them
was the investment of clean energy represented by natural gas, which is one of the energy
resources available in Iraq, through the establishment of large gas fired generation plants, in
addition to using two types of renewable energy, namely solar and wind energy, to provide
their resources in Iraq
Keywords
Gas-fired stations ,Renewable Energy in Iraq, Solar , wind .
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