GE To Power Iraq

General Electric intends to sell Iraq about three billion dollars' worth of power turbines.GE Energy will provide 56 heavy-duty frame 9E multi-fuel gas turbines.They can supply 7k megawatts of power-or enough for about 5.4 million homes.That will more than double Iraq's current capacity of about 6k megawatts a day.Iraq has been suffering from extensive outages,with some sections of Baghdad getting only four hours of electricity a day.