bout 2,300 ft. above Beirut in the Matn District mountains, Roger Mazloum and his brother Elias greet me on an unusually balmy winter day as they chop wood to help keep their early 20th century home warm before the cold returns. I’m no match for these burlier Lebanese men, who grew up in Broummana, a town of 15,000 people about a dozen miles east of the Lebanese capital, but I politely take my turn, meekly swinging an ax at the tree stump before us.
The state-run Electricité du Liban has a generation capacity of around 1,800 megawatts, according to Pierre Khoury, the director of the government-affiliated Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation , compared to the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 megawatts the country needed before the crisis. But EDL only provides around 200 to 250 megawatts today, because the economic collapse means the government struggles to pay for the imported fuel used to power the country’s two main electricity plants.
The team at ME Green installing solar panels at the Fouad Chehab stadium in Jounieh, Lebanon, on Feb. 14.Lebanon went from generating zero solar power in 2010 to having 90 megawatts of solar capacity in 2020. But the major surge happened when a further 100 megawatts were added in 2021 and 500 megawatts in 2022, according to the LCEC’s Khoury. The Lebanese government committed in 2018 to an ambitious target to source 30% of its energy from renewables by 2030, and reaffirmed that pledge at the U.
ME Green was one of the early solar power companies in Lebanon, but the sector has ballooned, from around 150 registered businesses in 2020 to more than 800 today, according to the LCEC’s Khoury. These companies work on everything from small household systems—which start at $2,000-$3,500—to projects involving hundreds of panels or more.
The state can't provide enough power or fuel. Obviously, folks are going to generate their own
Net zero means what is to these miners?
I meant being green.
Well, I would hope so.
elonmusk you need to expand your solar to elsewhere and dodge those douchebags holding you down in the US of America and that crooked market fixing shit… Germany 🇩🇪 has an exchange doesn’t it my brother from another mother… 🤪🇨🇦🪶❤️🔥Yes I like that perfect my phone and it is Ai
Lebanon is blessed with abundant sunlight, with an average of 300 days of sunshine per year. This makes solar power an attractive option for generating electricity, as the country can rely on its own natural resources rather than importing costly fuel.
OH COME ON!!!! ISRAEL HAD SOLAR POWER SINCE 1980
No strong wind storm?
Stop trying to make lemonade outa urine. Jesus.
中共持续灌臭气恶心本人，中国人支那猪真它妈的低贱人种！ 才会有中国共产党邪恶反人类政权！
Really shouldn't use Lebanon and boom in the same sentence.