The two main production sites of the country were stopped on Saturday after exhausting oil stocks.
Le Monde with Reuters
Lebanon no longer has electricity from its plants because of the fuel shortages that led him to close his two main production sites, announced Saturday, October 9 a Lebanese manager in Reuters, adding that It was “unlikely that it can be restarted before next Monday”.
According to the Lebanese television channel LBCI , the two Zahrani (south) electric power plants and Deir Ammar (North) have been stopped on Saturday, lowering the Production at less than 270 megawatts and plunging the country into “absolute black”. The chain specifies that the national company, Electricity of Lebanon (EDL), tried to restore the current “manually”, since its main seat was completely destroyed by the explosion of the port of Beirut in August 2020.
“It is impossible for the moment to restore the current,” said EDL at the log East-the day , which reports that according to the company, a cargo of fuel must arrive Saturday but will not be discharged in the plants of Zouk (Kesrouan) and Jiyé (south of Beirut) than in early next week.
The fuel shortage in Lebanon has significantly reduced public electricity in the country in recent months. A general breakdown had already occurred on the previous Saturday, after stopping the production of two floating plants. As of September 23, EDL had warned of the total black-out risks for lack of current production capacity.
It has been a long time since electricity is rationing, resulting in cuts of several hours a day in some regions of Lebanon, and private operators now offer alternative electricity services from generators, as explains. PhD student in sociology Alix Chaplain in The conversation .