ABCI Iraq 2035
Turning Iraq’s energy resources into reliable, efficient and increasingly diversified power for the economy.
ABCI analytical perspective. Milestones and structural directions below are research propositions, not official forecasts or commitments.
Reliable energy supports production, services and household welfare. Transformation should be assessed across supply, network efficiency and demand, with environmental commitments distinguished from installed capacity and delivered performance.
IMF context places electricity distribution losses at about 55% in 2024. The solar target is 12,000 MW by 2030, while gas self-sufficiency is an official direction. Iraq’s NDC commitment is 22% below business as usual by 2035: 5% unconditional and 17% conditional.
Generation targets alone cannot establish reliable supply. Network losses, metering, maintenance, gas availability, financing and delivery capacity need to be assessed together; conditional climate commitments must retain their financing and implementation qualifications.
Evaluate network rehabilitation, loss measurement, maintenance, efficient demand and commercially viable renewable integration. Compare announced capacity with commissioned and available capacity, and identify implementation responsibilities.
By 2030, assess delivery against official solar ambitions alongside network efficiency and supply reliability. Treat progress toward gas self-sufficiency as evidence to examine, not a guaranteed result.
More reliable supply and lower technical and commercial network losses, assessed against consistent energy and billing records. No numerical 2035 loss scenario is published without reviewed assumptions.
2024
IMF source context.
2030
Official target, not installed capacity.
2030
Iraq seeks self-sufficiency by 2030; not a guaranteed outcome.
2035
Below business as usual: 5% unconditional + 17% conditional.
2035
ABCI Research Direction — not an official government target.
Qualitative research proposition. No quantified 2035 scenario is published until a consistent baseline, assumptions and reproducible calculation have been reviewed. See the pillar measurement plan for definitions, collection needs and limitations.
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