Prime Minister Najib Mikati is said to have promised that the increase in production and the arrival of electricity from Jordan via Syria next could allow the distribution of 10 hours of electricity per day very soon.
Thus, the high-voltage line linking Jordan to Lebanon should soon be restarted. According to the Syrian authorities through which it passes, it had been damaged 87 km from the Syrian-Jordanian border to the Deir Ali region during the civil war. 80 pylons had been destroyed and 195 km of cables had been stolen and had to be replaced.
This information comes at a time when Lebanon has experienced a serious power shortage since last May, when the Banque du Liban refused to grant the foreign currency necessary for the purchase of fuel oil necessary for the operation of the Electricity plants of Lebanon and while the neighborhood generators, who partially offset these cuts announced a rationing program due to the rise in fuel prices also induced by the end of central bank subsidies.
Since then, after Hezbollah imported fuel oil, the United States proposed the reactivation of the Arab gas pipeline to the Deir Ammar power plant in northern Lebanon and the supply of electricity from Jordan via Syria, granting an exemption in the Land of the Cedars from the sanctions stipulated by the CAESAR Act.
For the time being, these 2 projects remain non-functional, discussions are still underway concerning the financing of the gas that could be sent to Lebanon while repairs were underway on the electricity transmission networks from Jordan. .
