Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

Stronico

Non paywalled link https://archive.is/g7HNV

WhereIsTheTruth

See, Iran? All you had to do was westernize your economy, hand your infrastructure to global capital, and open your markets Do that, and just like Syria, you'll become "partners"

vishnugupta

Just checked out the Google map satellite view and no kidding! The solar panels are crazy! Highly recommend exploring it yourselves. Mind blowing.

adrianN

I wonder how they use balcony solar for blackouts. The systems I know shut themselves off if the grid goes down.

tibbydudeza

We had to do the same here in South Africa - 2 hourly blackouts and innovative financing packages and cheap panels and inverters from China - you pay a monthly rent to own fee and they cover the maintenance. Nearly every third house has panels, but we don't feed back to the grid - the idiotic local authority lost the plot here and wanted to charge an enormous fee for a feedback meter.