Ongoing projects, few hours of electricity in Kobani due to declining water of Euphrates River
The city of Kobani and its villages are supplied with electrical energy for only 7 hours a day, as a result of the blocking of the water of the Euphrates River from Syrian lands by the Turkish occupation state. In its turn, the District’s Electricity Directorate completed 9 electricity extraction projects during the 2023 plan.
The co-chair of the Electricity Directorate in Kobani District, Dulkhawaza Sheikh Nabi, confirmed that: “For more than two years, the Turkish occupation state has been blocking the water of the Euphrates River from Syria, and this has a negative impact on electricity generation. With the water shortage, the hours of electricity generation from dams decrease.”
The city of Kobani and its villages are supplied with electricity coming from the dams on the Euphrates River, from 17:00 until 24:00, while its villages are from 17:00 until 23:00, and this period includes periods of rationing to reduce the load on the network.
Despite the short supply of electricity to the district, the Electricity Directorate is implementing service projects with the aim of improving the electricity network.
Kobani canton depends on the “Rojava (Tishreen), Euphrates and Freedom” dams located on the Euphrates River in North and East Syria to supply electricity, and they naturally generate electricity according to the quantities of water received from Turkey.
As the authorities of the Turkish occupation state continued to withhold the water of the Euphrates from Syrian and Iraqi lands, the General Administration of Dams, in coordination with the Energy Authority in the Autonomous Administration, was forced to develop programs for rationing electricity up to the minimum, in order to give greater importance to the issue of securing drinking water in the first place and irrigation water in the second degree.
Turkey is violating the agreement between Syria and Turkey in 1987, to release more than 500 cubic meters per second.
As a result, lakes formed behind dams in North and East Syria lost up to 85 percent of their strategic reserve.
The co-chair of the Electricity Directorate in Kobani canton, Dulkhawaza Sheikh Nabi, stressed the necessity of preserving electrical energy and not wasting it or increasing loads on the network.
In addition to this problem, the Turkish occupation army attacks the region, which target the infrastructure. On October 20, the occupation army bombed villages west of Kobani, which led to damage to the electricity network and the exit of the Shuyoukh exit and the tension cable in the village of Saftak, which feeds 20 villages, from service.
The maintenance workshops of the Electricity Directorate were able to repair the damage in a short period, despite the Turkish occupation army also targeting maintenance workers.
T/ Satt.
ANHA
