Syrian President Bashar Assad launched the first phase of one of the new solar energy plants near the capital Damascus, the plant will support the national grid with an additional 100 MW of power at times every watt is needed.
The new solar power plant is an initiative of the Syrian private sector in cooperation with the public sector which in turn will provide the grid distribution, buy back excesses of the electricity generated at a profitable price for the project and sell it at a subsidized price to the consumers. Syria does provide the lowest electricity cost to its people in the region.
President Assad did emphasize that renewable energy projects cannot in the meantime replace the traditional energy generating projects due to the inability of generating the same amount of electricity around the clock, he called it auxiliary energy instead of alternative energy.
However, the Syrian president did highlight that in such a case as Syria where the US army is stealing Syrian oil and gas causing severe shortages in the electricity generated topped with western combined sanctions crippling Syria's ability to import the needed fuel and parts used in traditional power plants, any extra power generated of any quantity is needed.
Syria's infrastructure, mainly its electricity sector was one of the main targets of the US-sponsored Al Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliated terrorists, sorry: freedom fighters, since the early days of the US-led war of terror and attrition against Syria dubbed the Arab Spring.
More in this report: President Bashar Assad Launches Photovoltaic Power Plant.
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