International Courant
BEIRUT
Lebanon’s energy utility firm introduced Saturday a nationwide energy outage, together with at Beirut’s airport and port.
The Electrical energy of Lebanon mentioned in a press release that the final group of manufacturing models on the Zahrani Energy Plant, which provides the nation with electrical energy, went offline after working out of gasoline.
This led to a whole halt of electrical energy provide throughout all Lebanese territories.
The ability outage affected key amenities, together with the Rafik Hariri Worldwide Airport, Port of Beirut, prisons, wastewater remedy amenities, and consuming water pumping stations.
The Zahrani Plant, in southern Lebanon, is among the most necessary energy era stations within the nation and at present the one operational one, supplying most of Lebanon’s electrical energy wants.
The assertion mentioned the shutdown of all manufacturing models at this plant “got here after exhausting all attainable precautionary measures to delay vitality manufacturing.”
The corporate mentioned it “will restart the manufacturing models on the Zahrani Plant that have been forcibly taken offline, in keeping with the storage that might be out there to it after securing gasoline, to regularly restore electrical energy provide to its earlier ranges,” with out disclosing the time wanted for this.
Over the previous couple of years, the frequency of energy outages in Lebanon has considerably elevated because of the authorities’s monetary misery, which led to its incapability to supply international foreign money to import gasoline.
Lebanon’s energy manufacturing earlier ranged between 1,600 and a couple of,000 megawatts every day, however the gasoline scarcity lately has regularly lowered manufacturing to unprecedentedly low ranges.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul
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