Syria launches tenders for 63 MW of solar
The Syrian Ministry of Electricity Transmission Establishment has issued 2 tenders for the solar power plants construction, with a generation capacity of 63 MW.
Syria: The Syrian Ministry of Electricity Transmission Establishment has issued two tenders for the construction of solar power plants with a combined generation capacity of 63 MW.
The first tender, which has a bid deadline of March 20, is for a 40 MW solar plant near the Jandar natural gas power plant in the Homs governorate of central Syria.
A second tender with the same closing date is for a 23 MW solar project near Damascus.
The U.S.-based Payne Institute for Public Policy said power infrastructure damage has occurred mainly in low and medium-voltage grids in combat areas. Two conventional power plants were destroyed: a 1 GW steam turbine in Aleppo and a 460 MW facility at Ziazon.
The World Bank reported in 2007 – four years before the outbreak of war – the nation had around 7.5 GW of power generation capacity. The multilateral lender at the time said those facilities were insufficient to meet peak power demand of 6.56 GW.
The war-torn nation had only 1 MW of installed solar capacity at the end of 2018, according to International Renewable Energy Agency figures.
Source: PV Magazine