Iraq is set to inaugurate its first industrial-scale solar plant in Karbala province in an effort to alleviate the ongoing electricity crisis that has caused widespread blackouts. The project, spread across about 400 hectares in the al-Hur desert area south-west of Baghdad, is expected to produce up to 300MW of electricity at full capacity, reported Al Jazeera. According to Nasser Karim al-Sudani, head of the national team for solar energy projects in the prime minister’s office, noted that work is also ...