Qatar’s offer to build 3 power plants to ease Lebanon’s electricity crisis is blocked

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s political class, fuel companies and private electricity providers blocked an offer by gas-rich Qatar to build three renewable energy power plants to ease the crisis-hit nation’s decades-old electricity crisis, Lebanese caretaker economy minister said Thursday. Lebanon’s electricity crisis worsened after the country’s historic economic meltdown began in October 2019. Power cuts often … Read more