Électricité du Liban

In response to that, small companies have emerged, providing households with expensive privately generated electricity during the daily rationing period.

In July 2020, due to the country's severe economic crisis resulting in Central Bank's failure to pay fuel shipments, EDL was forced to reduce production drastically.

[2] Following this disaster, Central Bank committed itself to pay all fuel shipments to ensure almost round-the-clock electricity production, for a few months only.

In May 2021, Turkish Karpowership, which provided Lebanon with 370 megawatts (MW) at a cost of $850 million per year, ceased supplying electricity due to payment arrears and legal threats to its two barges, MV Karadeniz Powership Fatmagül Sultan and MV Karadeniz Powership Orhan Bey.

As a result, the company reported that beginning at noon EEST, there would be an indefinite and complete black out in all territories of Lebanon which would impact “essential facilities such as the airport, port, water pumps, sewage systems, and prisons”.

In 2002, international donors at the Paris II conference pledged to provide finance to the electricity sector in Lebanon on condition of structural reforms.

In 2010, Minister of Energy Gebran Bassil launched another reform plan focusing on increasing production capacity, and providing for delegating collection and distribution to the private sector, which was done in 2012.

Controversies over the financing of new investments, the technological options to be favored, the choice of companies, the acceptance of works, the partial privatization of production had considerably delayed the implementation of the plan and power cuts continued.