Iraq restores power after outage affected central, southern areas
Officials in the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity told Reuters that an unexpected failure at the Hamidiya power plant in the western Iraqi province of Anbar caused a problem in the electricity transmission network.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity for Production Affairs, Mohammed Nehme, said that an unexpected power outage took place in the afternoon in the power transmission lines, resulting in broad outages across the national electrical system.
Nehme explained that technical teams are working to resolve the issue and restore electricity, and service will be fully restored within a few hours.
Many Iraqis have long relied on privately owned generators for power since the electricity provided by the Iraqi government is hardly accessible. A few others have started using solar energy to meet their electrical demands.
According to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the Ministry of Electricity is working in full emergency settings to restore power.
Iraq has been trying to deliver power to its residents since the 2003 US-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein. In the subsequent chaos, lack of investment and inefficiency made the national grid unable to meet demand.
Hundreds of Iraqis protested in Baghdad in the summer of 2021, when power and water outages plagued most of the country as temperatures soared to 50 degrees Celsius.
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