Reforming the electricity sector has been largely ineffective since the fall of saddam hussein s regime.
Iraqi people destroying solar panels.
Pv panels are no more likely to survive in iraq than grid power.
Between 2008 and 2013 china s fledgling solar electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high tech market.
Iraq is poised to produce energy from solar panels and this method is not expensive and long lived.
The new iraqi government formed in 2018 faces a huge challenge to deliver reliable power to people particularly under the added pressure by the u s.
These just need gasoline diesel.
The united nations development program undp has issued a tender to seek solar consultants to help the iraqi ministry of electricity implement its catalyzing the use of solar photovoltaic energy.
He claimed that destroying the panels was an act of anti modi gang the intention of which was to derail the solar power mission of the government.
As for iraq there are many more complex factors at work.
Although solar panels have come a long way the technology of these free energy generators is constantly improving and while solar panels are meant to withstand most climates and are built to last up to 20 years they re still not immune to damage especially since they re made from outward facing glass.
A video has been shared thousands of times on social media that shows men and women taking hammers to a long row of solar panels climbing on top of them and smashing the glass.
Gaurav pradhan has over 1 23 lakh followers one of whom is prime minister narendra modi.
For example a few bullets can easily destroy a pv panel.
The bulk of iraqi power in the post war years was from the myriad individual home generators.
On that occasion it had been shared by a bjp supporter gaurav pradhan.