Today, 08/17/2024, official Lebanese government sources reported the interruption of electricity supply throughout all Lebanon due to the alleged lack of fuel to supply the country’s two largest plants.

Local TV channel LBCI and Sawt Beirut International stated that Lebanon’s electricity grid is completely disabled and that the country has been left in darkness, especially after the aforementioned plants ceased operation due to lack of fuel.

Electrical supply failures are expected to continue for several days. According to Sky News, power production at the al Zahrani and Deir Ammar plants has fallen to less than 200 megawatts(MW). The country’s electricity company (Electricité du Liban, EDL) is trying to find a solution to the problem and manually restart the public grid, the company is trying to solve the problems in the absence of the EDL national control center, which has been severely damaged in the powerful explosion at the port of Beirut last year. At the end of September, the EDL warned of the possibility of a general blackout due to running out of fuel or being unable to guarantee the stability of the electricity grid.

The company announced that it:
“has exhausted all options and precautionary measures taken and is no longer able to guarantee a minimum supply of electrical current because of this situation, which is beyond its control.”