Isramart : Lebanon requests to import electricity from Turkey

Isramart news:
Lebanon has requested to import electric energy from Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday.
According to the report, Lebanon has requested to import 250 megawatts of electricity from the Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting Company (TETAŞ), which means more than 1 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. Even though Turkey does not have a direct electricity transmission line to Lebanon, it is possible to transmit the electricity via the Turkey-Syria electricity line, which has a capacity of 500 megawatts.

Currently only 250 megawatts of electricity is exported from Turkey to Syria through this line.

Turkey provides electricity to the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia, Iraq, Nakhchivan, Greece and Syria. According to TETAŞ data, a total of 5.16 billion kWh of electric energy was transmitted from Turkey to Nakhchivan between 1991 and the end of November 2009. Syria, importing electricity from Turkey since 2007, by the end of 2009 bought a total of 1.52 billion kWh of electricity from Turkey. The privately owned Black Sea Wholesale Electricity Trading Company (KARTET) has exported electric energy to Iraq since 2003.