Türkiye currently exports electricity to Syria from 8 different points, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar said at the opening ceremony of the Türkiye-Syria gas pipeline, Report informs.
According to Bayraktar, Türkiye aims to increase the volume of electricity exports to Syria by 25% in the initial stage, and then more than double it with additional lines: "When the work is completed, our connection capacity will reach 860 megawatts, and we will meet the electricity needs of 1.6 million homes in Syria."
Bayraktar said that as a result of gas exports to Syria, power plants there will also start operating soon. In the initial phase, it will be possible to export up to 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Syria annually. Thanks to this natural gas, approximately 1,200 megawatts of installed power capacity will be activated.