The Syrian energy ministry on Tuesday attributed a nationwide blackout to a “technical malfunction in the electrical system.”
The lights went out on Tuesday evening, and by Wednesday morning power had been restored to only three provinces.
Khaled Aboudi, director general of the Public Corporation for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, said power was restored to Homs, Hama, and Tartous provinces, and would “gradually return to the remaining provinces.”
Power in Syria tends to be spotty at best, with perhaps three hours a day of reliable electricity in much of the country. The long and grueling civil war that began in 2011 damaged much of the country’s fragile power infrastructure.
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Another problem is that Syria relied heavily upon imported Iranian oil during the fifty-year Assad
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