Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Local Administration and Environment has started implementing a number of projects working on solar energy in all governorates to serve industrial cities, pump water, street lighting devices, and citizen service centers.
Director of Environmental Safety in the Ministry, Engineer Rowaida Al-Nahar, explained in a statement to a representative of SANA that the ministry has started installing 10,735 lighting devices with poles and concrete bases that operate on solar energy, distributed in a number of cities and towns in the governorates and will be put into service at the end of this year.
Al-Nahar indicated that the implementation of the project to supply the new Yabous border center in the countryside of Damascus with electric power by generating about 70 kilowatts of photovoltaic energy, and the implementation of solar power generation projects in the industrial cities and a number of city centers, villages and towns, in addition to generating electric power through photovoltaic panels for the benefit of centers Citizen service in the 31 governorates.
According to Al-Nahar, there is a plan to install solar panels for about 100 wells, some of which are used for drinking and others for agriculture, in several governorates, and to create irrigation stations for thousands of hectares, benefiting more than 300,000 farmers, which will be completed at the end of this year as well.
An-Nahar indicated that during the last period, projects were implemented to pump water from collective wells on solar energy in Maaloula, Sahnaya, Zabadani, Humira, Hala, Ras al-Ain, Ain al-Tineh, al-Nabek and Darbel in the governorate of Damascus countryside, and two other wells in the Kafroun area and Karm al-Tin in Tartous governorate. These wells irrigate thousands of dunums of Agricultural land wooded with fruit trees.
The ministry had recently installed more than 7,000 solar-powered lighting devices to illuminate the main streets in the governorates of Damascus, Aleppo, Lattakia, Tartous, Hama, Homs, Daraa, Hasaka and Deir Ezzor, with a total installed capacity of 18061 kilowatts.
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