Surely Baghdad's electricity supply couldn't get worse than shown in the graph on the right? Alas, it seems it can: Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces...
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Posted on August 5, 2007 1:38 PM • 82 Comments
The good electricity news from Iraq has been lots of announcements of plans to improve things. Unfortunately, electricity production has not improved. To the left you can see how the electricity supply in Baghdad has gotten worse and worse....
Posted on July 28, 2007 2:15 PM • 30 Comments
Erik Svane says that the media is not reporting the good poll news from Iraq: Indeed, one reason that "the global image of America has slipped," that "pessimism about the future of Iraq was widespread," and that "Iraq is sapping...
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Posted on July 9, 2006 2:34 PM • 9 Comments
In February I linked to a detailed report in IEEE Spectrum that explained how billions of dollars had been wasted and electricity production in Iraq at 3,600 megawatts was still less than it was before the war. Glenn Reynolds felt...
Posted on May 11, 2006 3:05 PM • 13 Comments
In May, last year I summarized the good news about Iraqi reconstruction: Due to lack of maintenance, electricity production fell from 9000 MW in 1991 to 4400 MW before the war. Since then, there have been many announcements of improved...
Posted on February 6, 2006 2:55 AM • 26 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
