Iraq
Provenance, tier, and validation record for iraq-mainland. No live curtailment figures on this page — those are on the globe.
- Region id
iraq-mainland- Country
- IRQ
- Waste modality
- Solar
- Coordinates
- 34.00° N, 43.50° E
- Tier
estimated· T3-modelledNo live feed and no published total for this region. A typical-shape profile is scaled to a capacity-based or literature anchor.
Modelled profile, scaled to annual (±40%)
- Uncertainty
- ±40% of peak GW
Published envelope for this tier. See the uncertainty model.
- Source provenance
modelled-fallback· No verified upstream linkThere is no verified upstream link. The snapshot is a typical-shape profile scaled to an anchor, or otherwise estimated.
- Source
- Ministry of Electricity fallback
Tier, provenance, and source are read at build time from src/lib/regions.ts — the same table the globe draws from. The validation record below is generated separately and gated against it by npm run ci:docs-drift.
Validation record
Last updated: 2026-08-20 · Sprint: S1 + HB integration · Paper section: Technical Validation §4.2
Source
- Region id:
iraq-mainland - Country: IRQ
- Tier: estimated
- Kind: solar
- Source: Ministry of Electricity fallback
- Source URL: https://moelc.gov.iq/
- Loader:
iraq-mainland.json.ts - Structural gap: no
Calibration
- Rate source documented in:
docs/methodology/(see links below) - Uniform across backfill years: n/a — no backfill
Multi-year backfill annual totals
| Year | Backfill rows | Backfill annual TWh | Published TSO annual TWh | Δ % | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (no backfill or TSO anchors yet — will be populated after HB fan-out completes) |
Published anchors
- TSO annual curtailment (latest published): MoE Iraq no public data; structural gap
- Ember annual: —
- IRENA annual: —
- Other: —
Discrepancy analysis
No backfill and no TSO anchor. Region relies solely on the live snapshot; nothing to triangulate against.
Known limitations
No public hourly archive. Iraq's Ministry of Electricity (moelc.gov.iq) public pages do not expose hourly PV curtailment. The loader emits a typical solar shape (peak UTC 7) scaled to a ~0.1 TWh/yr anchor for emerging Karbala and Dhi Qar PV plant curtailment, deliberately kept separate from the s-iraq flare region (Item 11 in docs/known-limitations.md covers flare; this region is mainland renewable, not flare). T3-modelled, ±40% envelope. The 0.1 TWh anchor is conservative and reflects nascent grid-scale solar deployment; a higher anchor would be defensible if Iraq publishes 2025 PV capacity adds in line with current PPA pipeline.
Links
- Loader source:
iraq-mainland.json.ts - Backfill archive:
data/historical/backfill/*_iraq-mainland_*.parquet(0 years) - Cross-cutting methodology:
docs/methodology/historical-backfill.md - Data source log:
docs/data-source-log.md - Known limitations index:
docs/known-limitations.md
Current GW, 24-hour peak, 30-day TWh, and feed freshness for this region are on the globe. Cite this page as everylastjoule.com/region/iraq-mainland. The dataset has a DOI; see About.