
Syria signs $7 B deal to restore power
Qatar-led consortium will add 5,000 MW via gas and solar projects, doubling Syria’s electricity capacity and creating over 300,000 jobs nationwide.
Qatar-led consortium will add 5,000 MW via gas and solar projects, doubling Syria’s electricity capacity and creating over 300,000 jobs nationwide.
New electricity deal and planned gas pipeline aim to ease Syria’s energy crisis, with 400 kV line and 6 million m3 of gas daily from Turkey.
Syria needs investment of nearly $40 B to build new power plants and rehabilitate war-damaged facilities.
Lebanon, Beirut: Lebanon signed an agreement on 26 January to import electricity from Jordan via Syria.
The Syrian Ministry of Electricity Transmission Establishment has issued 2 tenders for the solar power plants construction, with a generation capacity of 63 MW.
Iran: Iran has struck an initial agreement with Syria to rebuild Damascus’s power grid, state media reported on Saturday.