National grid to go offline as power plants operator suspends services
The operator of the Deir Amar and al-Zahrani power plants, Primesouth, will hand over the facilities to the state-run Electricite du Liban at 5pm Wednesday, which would lead to a shutdown of the national grid, al-Jadeed TV reported.
LBCI television meanwhile said that Primesouth took the decision after it was paid only $2 million out of $83 million owed to it by EDL.
“The company cannot continue working amid this situation, especially that there are no indications that the dollars collected by EDL will be used for operating the plants and securing spare parts for maintenance,” LBCI added.
Media reports meanwhile said that caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad was making contacts in a bid to secure the payments demanded by the company.
Source: Naharnet
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