Featured in Fork to the future – 09-2021

Will Lebanon’s solar rise?

A year after a sudden explosion in Beirut killed more than 200 people, destroying solar installations in the port and sending the country into a complete downfall, a question emerges: Can Lebanon use this experience to set its economy on a new sustainable pathway, supported by a viable energy sector? Solar energy offers some lessons.

By

Ilias Tsagas

07 Sep 2021

Image: LCEC

In July 2020, pv magazine published an article on Lebanon’s solar photovoltaic sector, addressing how the country’s dwindling economy was affecting its renewable energy tender schemes and the overall progress toward its green energy goals for the years 2020 and 2030. The situation was already very difficult, given that Lebanon had failed to make a …

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