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Article: In Baghdad, power to - and from - the people; Iraqi entrepreneurs run generators to fill gaps left by the faulty power grid.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 22, 2003
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Byline: Hassan Fattah Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD -- Every few hours, when the lights go out along his block in the Baghdad suburb of Saydia, Shehab Abu Ahmed marches out of his tiny shack at the top of his street, thumbs his nose at the capital's largest power plant, and fires up his massive 125-kilovolt generator. Within seconds, the power comes back on along his street, one house at a time.
"We have 35 houses connected so far," Mr. Abu Ahmed says. "And more are signing up every day."
Amid one of the worst power crunches Baghdad has ever seen, small-time power generators like Abu Ahmed and his partners have made a ...