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Lasher

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3. Zahrani & Deir Ammar have run out of fuel oil.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sat Oct 9, 2021, 11:01 PM

Oct 2021

But they still have 6 other plants in this category that should be running. Further, they have 2 power ships and 11 hydroelectric resources. How can it be that their power grid is shut down when only these 2 facilities are offline?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Lebanon

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