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It is the first time in six years that the city is brightly lit at night, with electricity remaining all day long.
The power lines destroyed in the attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime forces and Russian and Iranian-backed militias have been repaired. Now the city has electricity all the time.
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In the current phase, electricity has been supplied to several neighborhoods in the city center of Idlib.
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The electricity network will later be extended to all provinces after the necessary infrastructure has been built.
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Usame Abu Zayed, director of the Syrian Green Energy company, said they had started working in coordination with a private Turkish company to provide electricity to the Idlib people of Turkey.
“We started electricity distribution in Idlib. We carried out our project step by step, including the preparation, completion and installation of electricity grids and stations,” said Abu Zayed.
Local businessman Ahmed Abu Omar praised those working on the electricity distribution scheme. “Today, we can say that electricity has brought Idlib back to life,” he said.
Noting that the city of Idlib would be supplied with electricity 24 hours per day, he said, “Without electricity coming from Turkey, we have electricity for two hours a day. Today, we have electricity for 24 hours.”
Syria has been wracked by civil war since early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.
Hundreds of thousands of people have died and more than 10 million have been displaced, according to UN estimates.
Idlib is included in a de-escalation zone created under an agreement between Turkey and Russia.
The area has been the subject of numerous cease-fire deals, which the Assad regime and its opponents frequently break.
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