The IEA’s January 2025 National Climate Resilience Assessment for Iraq examines how extreme heat, water stress, floods and dust can affect energy supply and infrastructure. Hotter conditions raise cooling demand while some hazards can constrain generation, fuel systems and transmission or distribution assets.
The report discusses options including a more diverse generation mix, distributed resources, microgrids and stronger regional interconnection. For long-lived investments, the value is in testing site and network designs against multiple hazards instead of treating an average-demand forecast as the full operating requirement.
Its scenarios indicate exposure over future periods. They do not predict a specific outage date or prove that a particular proposed project will eliminate a climate risk.