Aleppo Plant defies the darkness of terrorism and the siege

After a hiatus that lasted for years as a result of the crimes of the terrorists, the Aleppo Power Plant returned to generate light after the completion of maintenance and rehabilitation work for the fifth group.

Engineer Muhammad Mazen Samakieh, director of the General Company for Electric Power Generation in Aleppo, said that the plant, located 25 km east of Aleppo, consists of five steam generating sets, each with a capacity of 213 megawatts.

According to Sammakieh, the station continued to supply the electricity network until 2013, when it began to be attacked by terrorists.

The plant’s cadres continued to work and serve citizens.

Sammakieh pointed out that the terrorist organization (ISIS) had invaded the plant in 2015 and took it as its headquarters, before the Syrian Arab Army liberated it in 2016.

Sammakieh said that the technical conditions books and the announcement of the rehabilitation of the station, and a contract was concluded by mutual consent with an Iranian company to rbuild the first and fifth turbines, at a value of 123 million and 450 thousand euros.

Sammakieh that work is continuing to rebuildthe first group to put it into service at the end of the year to supply the electrical network with a quantity of 200 megawatts of electricity.

Sammakieh said that the obstacles encountered by the work have been overcome, the most important of which is the difficulty of securing spare parts due to the unjust economic siege on Syria.

Eng. Najwan Al-Khoury, Production Manager at the Electric Power Generation Corporation, said that the group’s operations and its connection with the network generate 150 megawatts.

The technician, Ahmed Jaafar, talked about the operation of the fifth group, and the generation of electricity, while continuing work to place the first group with investment after completing the rehabilitation works.

Inas Abdulkareem