The language of numbers describes the reality of electricity in Syria
As the importance of food security has become energy security in Syria, electricity is the main lever of all sectors in any country in the world, and in this sense was the decision of President Bashar al-Assad to improve the reality of electricity in Syria after what he witnessed during the war on the country.
The years of war on Syria have caused systematic destruction and destruction by terrorists of vital sectors and infrastructure, including the electrical sector. The terrorist organizations occupied and destroyed the stations. They also struck all the feed lines from the stations they could not reach. Most of Syria.
The Syrian citizen, after suffering all the power outages and the painful hours of rationing due to the destruction of their sources, returned today to see the uninterrupted lighting again about a year ago and with the restoration of the Syrian state control of the majority of power plants and start repairing them.
In an exclusive interview with Al-Manar TV, Dr. Hayyan Salman, the Syrian Minister of Electricity, gave to Al-Manar's website a revived reality, figures indicating the size of the cost and the resilience of Syria in the face of systematic sabotage attacks by terrorism, on generators and energy sources.
During the meeting, Salman stressed that the electric power is gradually returning to what it was in Syria and that the losses, despite its huge size, have not been able to stop the wheel of work to restore electricity to all fields and sectors based on it in the country.
Efforts have intensified between the Syrian state and friendly countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation, and this stability of electricity has borne fruit after this great distress.
Syria's pre-war production was 7,500 megawatts, but in some years the war amounted to 700 megawatts, where the Syrian Deputy Minister of Electricity confirmed that the planned and systematic plans were able to cause all this damage, even it took the terrorists to take the electricity poles and sell them in the form of scrap. He pointed out that there were stations that were completely destroyed, such as Deir Ezzor station, and other partial destruction such as Tishreen and Mhardeh.
In digital, Salman speaks:
- The Aleppo power plant, for example, produces about 1,250 megawatts, enough for Aleppo and others. The cost of returning this plant to what it was in 2010 amounts to 600 million euros, pointing out that it was stolen by the Turkish government.
- Electricity losses in Syria exceed 4000 billion Syrian pounds, more than 5 billion dollars.
- The expertise of the national cadres was able to extract creative solutions through direct follow-up and guidance from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Electricity in Syria, until Syria reached today more than 5000 megawatts, and the decline of the rationing that reached in the midst of the Syrian crisis to more than 18 hours Today, much less sacrifices and in many areas rationing is absent or rare.
Salman pointed out that local cadres in cooperation with friends have built stations, in addition to the use of alternative power plants, and what was strange for many build stations that rely on solar and wind energy, including in the area of Kiswa, Homs and others.
He added d. Hayan Salman, the guest of the site, said that there were projects that were invested with friendly countries led by Iran in trillions of Syrian pounds, and the electricity was restored to the water stations.
Indications of steadfastness in the Syrian state are clear through the support of friendly countries and reliance on local cadres and development, and here considering the talk about electricity, the Assistant Minister of Electricity noted that Iran built a power plant in Lattakia and provided all the necessary spare parts and maintenance.
Remarkably in Salman's interview, Syria today, during its development of the electricity sector, has accomplished an important part of the 2030 strategic plan and started to be implemented, it cannot be accepted to return to what it was in 2010.
Since the increase in population is rising, and investment projects have started, this inevitably increases the demand for electricity, so this is secured and production is raised despite all the sabotage witnessed by the Syrian state on its electricity sector.
Syria will surprise the entire world with victory as d. Hayyan Salman, Syrian Deputy Minister of Electricity, asserting that Syria supports the electricity sector in billions of Syrian pounds, and alleviates the citizen in relation to the subject of segments and take into account the situation of limited income among citizens to help them bear the costs of electricity
