In March 2017, the GE Power team returned to Al Qayara — an Iraqi town about 46 miles from Mosul, a city then still occupied by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — to see how the Al Qayara Power Plant was faring. Though the fighters had fled the area and would soon depart Mosul, the team found little to celebrate. The plant was in ruins. Six turbines sat dormant amid an expanse of desolate desert. Oil fields — set on fire by ISIS — burned in the distance.
