{"id":59768,"date":"2021-10-09T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59768"},"modified":"2021-10-09T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:27:36","slug":"entirety-of-lebanon-goes-dark-mass-power-outage-to-last-several-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59768","title":{"rendered":"Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/entirety-lebanon-goes-dark-mass-power-outage-last-several-days\">Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>On Saturday the entirety of Lebanon was plunged into darkness, with the electricity grid shut down completely after the small Mediterranean country&#8217;s two main power stations reportedly ran out of fuel.\u00a0 &#8220;The al Zahrani and the Deir Ammar power stations stopped working after\u00a0<strong>supplies of diesel were apparently exhausted, and energy production dropped to below 200 megawatts<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>A Lebanese official has confirmed to\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0that the blackout is\u00a0<strong>expected to last multiple days<\/strong>.\u00a0&#8220;The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is\u00a0<strong>unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days<\/strong>,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/beirutdark.png?itok=n32ZAr6g\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5137046d-2ec5-4fac-a381-8c1cd9e96393\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Via BBC correspondent\/Twitter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\" data-google-query-id=\"CJH0pNzCvfMCFUnIhwodmqkIjg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\">&#8220;The official said the state electricity company would try to use <strong>the army&#8217;s fuel oil reserve<\/strong>\u00a0to operate the power plants temporarily, but that would not happen anytime soon,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/09\/middleeast\/lebanon-blackout-power-outage-electricity-intl\/index.html\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>\u00a0noted.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the past months major Lebanese cities and towns have experienced periodic blackouts, but this looks to be the worst\u00a0and most far-reaching and long lasting &#8211; increasing the misery\u00a0of a Lebanese population still in the midst of an economic crisis, persistent fuel shortage, and which has seen the local currency plunge by 90% since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the past year in Lebanon has witnessed\u00a0scenes of sometimes miles-long lines at gas stations, with fights and disputes over supplies becoming almost routine. Residents and business owners have tried to endure via\u00a0<strong>generators and hoarding personal fuel supplies<\/strong>\u00a0insofar is possible for those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1446813123009290240&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fenergy%2Fentirety-lebanon-goes-dark-mass-power-outage-last-several-days&amp;sessionId=a98c4ad0be51c626656df23df207d2f394f823e2&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1446813123009290240\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some Lebanese interviewed by\u00a0<em>Middle East Eye<\/em>\u00a0told the publication that moving about an entirely darkened city at night is like\u00a0<strong>&#8220;reliving the civil war&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; in reference to lengthy war and collapse of infrastructure that gripped the country from 1975 to 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days On Saturday the entirety of Lebanon was plunged into darkness, with the electricity grid shut down completely after the small Mediterranean country&#8217;s two main power stations reportedly ran out of fuel.\u00a0 &#8220;The al Zahrani and the Deir Ammar power stations stopped working after\u00a0supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1103,31926,3042,15188,1575,4552,31927,4318],"class_list":["post-59768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-electricity","tag-fuel-supplies","tag-lebanon","tag-power-grid-failure","tag-power-loss","tag-power-outage","tag-supply-chain-disruption","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59768\/revisions\/59769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}