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For the skinny on electricity in Iraq, you'd be hard-pressed to beat this guy. Deltoid (02.06.06), via Eschaton (links in original):

In May, last year I summarized the good news about Iraqi reconstruction: Due to lack of maintenance, electricity production fell from 9000 MW in 1991 to 4400 MW before the war. Since then, there have been many announcements of improved generating capacity and production has fallen further to 3560 MW. Since then, things haven't improved much, Brookings' Iraq index says that electricity production in January 2006 was 3600 MW. Good Electricity News from Iraq

Basically, Baghad is down to six hours a day. What's the problem? Wrong question. What you should be asking is what's not the problem.