by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 5, 2010 | Power & Water
With record high temperatures and far too many people in the country at the moment, it was no surprise that capacity at our decaying power stations would collapse from a state of utter uselessness to complete non-existence. But don’t you worry, Electricite du...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 6, 2009 | Environment, Power & Water
UPDATE: A Purple Monkey has rightly pointed out that the plan to reach 12% energy production through renewable means is scheduled for 2020 and not 2012. The source where I had obtained the information from seems to have made an error. You can find the correct (and...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 12, 2009 | Power & Water
It appears that Electricite du Liban (EDL) will finally take action against customers that fail to pay their bills: EDL has a launched a web site which lists the names and addresses of all those who have failed to pay their dues to the company. The area covers Beirut,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 31, 2009 | Power & Water
After over two decades of rolling blackouts, some schools have finally seen the light (thanks to donations, of course): Lebanon’s remote northeastern district of Akkar, teachers and pupils at the Rajam Issa public school are hoping this winter will be the first when...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 16, 2009 | Power & Water
Lebanon seems to be moving ahead with private power generation despite not having a functioning government. The country is tendering a contract for the operational assistance and capacity building for the Energy Regulatory Authority. If we refer to the effectiveness...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 25, 2009 | Power & Water, Society
I came across a dispatch on the GlobalPost titled, Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton … Beirut’s Back. The jest of the article revolves around the idea that Lebanon is the place to be because people get wasted on rooftops. That’s all great and fair though the...