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Statistics indicate that the trend toward solar in Iraq started in 2024 and is likely accelerating. According to the Arabic-language, specialist media outlet, Attaqa, Iraq’s imports of Chinese solar panels more than quadrupled between 2024 and 2025. They rose from 0.43 gigawatts to 1.89 gigawatts, and made Iraq the fifth-largest importer among Arab countries.

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria import more Chinese solar panels than Iraq, but no other country’s imports grew as much as Iraq’s in that period.

“Solar cannot be left entirely to the market, but it also cannot wait for the government alone.”

Plenty of other examples are already up and running. Doesn’t take that much money to ask how they already solved the problem.

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Wind curtailment in the UK has cost consumers over £1 billion so far in 2025, primarily due to payments made to wind farms to stop generating electricity when the grid cannot handle the supply. This issue is expected to escalate, potentially reaching £8 billion annually by 2030, as the infrastructure struggles to keep up with renewable energy production.

Much more interesting is what UK doesn’t do with that power. Someone should post that article about curtailment problems and how that jacks up people’s power bills.