A general report showing the current situation of electrical power generation in north and east Syria. This report clarifies the deficit in the electrical generation capabilities and presents the most appropriate strategic and tactical solutions that possible in the current situation.
The Euphrates River is considered one of the most important surface and renewable water resources in Syria, with a length of 610 km from its entrance in Jarablus to its exit at Al-Bukamal, where three dams were built on its course, each containing a hydroelectric power station.
Historically, since the beginning of the mid-nineties of the last century, the annual average of the abundance coming from Turkey to Syria ranged in the range of 1000 ± 50 cubic meters per second, which is estimated at 30 ± 3 billion cubic meters per year, but its decreased to ± 250 cubic meters per second in the end of 2020 due to the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) that Launched in 1977, and defined as an ambitious Turkish project to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for energy and agricultural production.
The overall goal of the mega development project is to localize 8800 megawatts of electric capacity, and to double the irrigated agricultural land in Turkey to 3.1 million hectares, So far, capacities of up to 6564 megawatts have been localized on the Euphrates River only, with an electrical completion rate of 74.6%, and the areas of land invested within the project have reached 1.16 million hectares in the Euphrates Basin, which is estimated at 64.4%, an agricultural achievement rate within the continuous development project for the southeast Anatolia.
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