The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity (MOE) has started establishing interconnection stations with Saudi Arabia and determining the paths of transmission lines. In January 2022, Iraq and Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to connect the power grids of the two countries. The first phase of the interconnection project is expected to have a capacity of 1 GW and could be operational as of 2023 or 2024.
In September 2020, Iraq reached an agreement with Jordan to link their power grids and Jordan accepted to provide Iraq with 1 TWh/year starting in December 2022. The two countries could increase the exchanges on a later stage.
In 2020, Iraq imported 11.8 TWh of electricity, mainly from Iran, accounting for 26% of the country's power consumption.