Electricity In Syria

Electrical energy is considered an important element of contemporary life, the formation of the electrical plants and transmission and distribution networks are considered as one of the important fields of  the countries and nations infrastructure, which is the driving force for the life of nations and its development, however, the increasing continuance of  power adoption  in daily live, has stepped up to the need for establishing  power plants  and its transmission networks.

In Syria, many factors contributed in demand's increasing for electrical power, such as high rate of population growth, urbanization's increasing, and living standards rising,  in addition to the economic and industrial, agricultural and tourism development, all this makes the energy market flourish in Syria and evolve to meet the needs of the electrical power plants, transmission lines, transformer stations and distribution of the various tensions. Furthermore,  the need to provide all the electrical components of the system such as cables, transformers, contactors, magnetic and electric cells, meters, capacitors, reactors and other more .....

Syria is aspiring to buttock electrical system to increase the current contribution of clean renewable energies as well as increasing the procedures of power ushering to raise the efficiency of energy use, which will provide opportunities for new investments and market development for industrial automation technology and clean energy systems.
where the Syrian government announced that it has signed a contract worth 896 million dollars for the construction of new power station (about 35 km south of Damascus ) with capacity of 700 megawatts, depending on natural gas, in cooperation with one of Greek companies.

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• According to studies, Syria needs  to produce an additional 1700 MW in 2010 and this means the need for large-scale projects for the generation of electrical energy needed private investments  exceeding over 1.4 billion dollars (70 billion SYP) to meet the growing demand for electricity.
• The experts in the electricity sector expect that Syria will need during the next five years to about 5 .3 billion Euros (218.3 billion Syrian pounds) to invest in the field of power generation by itself, especially that the number of subscribers of the electric power reach up to about 5 million subscribers.
• In the recent years, Iraq has suffered from electricity shortages and has adopted a future central plan to come with the next 10 years for the rehabilitation of the existing production plants and transmission and distribution networks and establish a new linking stations covers its energy needs.