Iraq Electricity Self-Sufficiency a Far-Fetched Goal

Iraq imports 7 gigawatts of electricity from Iran to make up for the shortfall between its output and actual need, an Iraqi power ministry official said.
Abbas Jabber, electricity ministry undersecretary, told a conference in Cairo that self-sufficiency would be a formidable challenge for the war-weary state because consumers pay a fraction of the production costs, ISNA reported.
Wars, sanctions, internal strife and IS terror have left Iraq, a major oil producer, with a chronic energy shortage and devastated its economy.