Khaled Aboudi, director general of the Public Corporation for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, said power was restored to Homs, Hama, and Tartous provinces, and would “gradually return to the remaining provinces.” The insurgent government in Damascus has pledged to restore Syria’s energy infrastructure and repair its power grid, but those efforts would cost more than $250 billion, and it will be difficult to raise such huge investments while sanctions imposed against the Assad regime remain in place. International energy companies will be reluctant to invest in Syria as long as the free world has misgivings about the “interim government” that replaced Assad, and doubts about the ability of that government to provide a safe environment for industrial development.
Author: John Hayward, John Hayward
Published at: 2025-04-02 22:14:11
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