Lebanon, Jordan agree to bring electricity through Syria

Amjad Rawashdeh, Managing General Director of the Jordanian National Electric Power Company, Kamal Hayek, Director of Electricity of Lebanon and Fawaz al-Zaher, General Manager of Syrian Electricity Transmission and Distribution, sign a deal that will supply Lebanon with electricity at Ministry of Energy and Water in Beirut, Lebanon January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon signed a U.S.-backed deal with Jordan on Wednesday that aims to ease crippling power shortages by transmitting electricity across neighbouring Syria, after Washington assured Beirut it should not fear https://www.reuters.com/article/lebanon-crisis-energy-usa-idAFL1N2TU11N its sanctions on Damascus.

The agreement is part of a wider plan that also aims to pump Egyptian gas to a power station in northern Lebanon via a pipeline that runs through Jordan and Syria but which has yet to be signed.