Hama-sana
A new "solar" renewable electricity generating station is on its way to completion soon in Hama Governorate, in preparation for putting it into service and investment after connecting it with the public electricity network within 3 months.
This station will be a substitute for the public electrical network, a fruit of cooperation between the public and private sectors, and it will be invested for the benefit of the electrical system in the governorate for a period of 25 years.
Ghassan Khalif, the owner and investor of the station, told the SANA reporter that this station is an extension of the first station that he owns and is also investing in since last year, and constitutes a promising experiment on the way to investing in the production of electricity with renewable energy as an alternative to electricity produced by relying on fossil fuels, whether oil, gas or fuel.
Khalif pointed out that the station was established alongside its first counterpart in the expansion of the industrial zone east of Hama and extends over an area of 20 dunums and includes 3030 solar panels and serves the whole governorate of Hama and has a capacity of 1 megawatt hour, and its completion rate exceeded 60 percent after the completion and establishment of the conversion center and the red partitions and the structure. The infrastructure consists of concrete bases and metal formations necessary for fixing the power panels, while securing a large tank, cables and supplies to connect the panels to each other on one side, and with the transformer "converters" on the other hand.
In turn, the head of the Department of Energy Conservation at Hama Electricity Company, Eng. Mikhlif Al-Hassan, said that the station project is in line with the Ministry of Electricity’s directions in encouraging private sector investors to contribute to generating electricity using renewable energies as well as being environmentally friendly, pointing to the station’s role in providing large quantities of traditional fossil fuels. Especially as its annual electricity production reaches 1.8 million watt hours, providing more than 450 tons of fuel.
He also explained that upon completion of the establishment and preparation of the station, it will be linked to the public network to ensure that its production of electricity is injected into the network and the electrical system as an additional support for it, stressing that the connection will meet the technical conditions and procedures through cables, circuit breakers, transformers, counting systems, and others.
Al-Hassan called on business sector owners to expand the establishment of investment projects in the field of renewable energy, especially in light of the current circumstances due to the unjust economic blockade on the Syrian people, as these projects contribute to achieving self-sufficiency in electric energy and reducing dependence on the public electrical network, stressing that the station project will contribute to Increasing electricity production and reducing energy losses, given that the station is located at points close to consumption, “the industrial zone and the city of Hama”.
Abdullah Sheikh
