Green Options » baghdad http://greenoptions.com/tag/baghdad Posts tagged 'baghdad' Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:55:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Baghdad Finds Safer Streets with Solar-Powered Streetlights http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/23/baghdad-finds-safer-streets-with-solar-powered-streetlights/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/23/baghdad-finds-safer-streets-with-solar-powered-streetlights/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:55:15 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/23/baghdad-finds-safer-streets-with-solar-powered-streetlights/ While most Baghdad residents still do not have reliable electricity inside their homes, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity has begun to install solar-powered streetlights in the country’s war-torn capitol.

According to a recent NPR report, several thousand lamps have already been installed, with thousands more in the works. Anhar Abdullah, chief engineer of Ministry of Electricity, said off-the-grid street lights were important for security reasons. For over five years, the Iraqi government has done little to address their issues maintaining functional electricity inside homes.

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