IRAQ ECONOMY ELECTRICITYAn Iraqi electrician checks fuses at a generator which runs when the national power grid is down in Baghdad ' s Karrada district on 18 January 2011 . A local governor in Iraq ' s oil - rich north Abdul - Rahman Mustafa cut the electricity going to Baghdad from a power station in Kirkuk because his own constituents only have three hours of power each day and because of the failure of negotiations with Iraq ' s Electricity Ministry to share the power generated at a plant in Taza station , south of Kirkuk . EPA / ALI ABBAS < 뉴스 의 새 시대 , 연합뉴스 Live > < 모바일 애플리케이션 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >