Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Damascus, SANA -The General Corporation for Electricity Generation announced Thursday that it has finalized power plants maintenance and gas transmission networks and the connection with Turkey via the Kilis–Aleppo pipeline to receive Azerbaijani natural gas which will increase daily electrical supply to 10 hours.
Director General of the Corporation Engineer Mohammad Fadila, told SANA that this project “carries significant strategic, economic, and humanitarian dimensions as part of efforts toward reconstruction and advancing stability”.
For his part, the Director General of the Public Electricity Transmission and Distribution Corporation, Engineer Khaled Abu Di, said that the project would lead to an increase in daily electricity supply across various Syrian provinces to around 10 hours, starting next Saturday.
Syrian Ministry of Energy announced Wednesday that Azerbaijani gas will officially begin flowing into Syria on August 2, 2025, via the Kilis border pipeline linking Turkey and Syria as part of a tripartite cooperation agreement between Syria, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.
Under the agreement, approximately 3.4 million cubic meters of gas will be supplied daily, to be used to operate gas-fired power plants, increasing electricity production between 700 and 900 megawatts.
This development marks the culmination of joint efforts over the past few months led by the Ministry of Energy and relevant institutions to rehabilitate infrastructure and ensure the technical readiness of gas-powered generation plants which paving the way for a new phase of stability in Syria’s energy sector.
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