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Power outages push workshops in Syria's Damascus to close
[NPASYRIA] Ahmed Hadi could not continue working and closed his shop after power cutoffs continued for more than ten hours in his neighborhood, al-Sheikh Sa’d in al-Mazza area in the Syrian capital, Damascus.The hours of electricity in Damascus and other government-held areas has declined, as rationing hours reached more than ten hours in some areas of Damascus and its suburbs. Residents of the villages of Rif-Dimashq said that they receive electricity only two hours a day. Hadi works at a sewing workshop with five other workers, who have been jobless and with no source of income for a week. "Our job depends on electricity and it is unavailable; a lot of unpaid work has piled up," Hadi told North Press. On June 27, Syrian Minister of Electricity Ghassan al-Zamil told a local radio station that high temperatures caused increased rationing hours. The decrease in gas imports for power stations and high temperatures caused some of these stations to go out of service, according to al-Zamil. Stations that are out of service need maintenance that take months due to high costs of maintenance and unavailability of spare parts. In addition, the improvement of electricity is linked with the increase of gas quantities imported to the stations, al-Zamil pointed out. Posted by: Fred 2021-07-04 |
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