Partially destroyed by the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion, the headquarters of Électricité du Liban in Beirut has still not been restored. (Credit: João Sousa/L'Orient Today)
Forty-five days. That is the deadline Lebanon’s government gave private generator owners on Aug. 13 to bring their operations into compliance or face legal action.“Our decision is firm and is an integral part of restoring the authority of the state in all its prerogatives,” Economy Minister Amer Bsat told L’Orient-Le Jour in an interview Monday. The details of the announcement Cabinet announces stricter measures for generator operators Compliance requires three measures: installing individual meters, adding filters and complying with tariffs published monthly by the Energy Ministry. According to an Economy Ministry survey carried out in early 2025 on 750 generators across the country, about one-third of the nearly 7,000 private generators do not comply with at least one of the three requirements.Acting in the name of “consumer...
Forty-five days. That is the deadline Lebanon’s government gave private generator owners on Aug. 13 to bring their operations into compliance or face legal action.“Our decision is firm and is an integral part of restoring the authority of the state in all its prerogatives,” Economy Minister Amer Bsat told L’Orient-Le Jour in an interview Monday. The details of the announcement Cabinet announces stricter measures for generator operators Compliance requires three measures: installing individual meters, adding filters and complying with tariffs published monthly by the Energy Ministry. According to an Economy Ministry survey carried out in early 2025 on 750 generators across the country, about one-third of the nearly 7,000 private generators do not comply with at least one of the three requirements.Acting in the name of...
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