Government keeps Iranian company equipping thermal station in Syria’s Aleppo unknown
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, Syrian government said that it is working with national and local expertise to restore the thermal station in Aleppo to what it was, while sources say that the station is being prepared by the Iranians.
“The Ministry of Electricity has concluded a contract to restructure and build the thermal station in partnership with the Iranian government,” Elias al-Ahmar, one of the supervisors working within the thermal station, told North Press.
The contract between the two countries expires in early June 2022, so that the fifth unit enters service in the city of Aleppo and its countryside at the time of the station’s take-off.
“It was expected that Russian and Chinese companies would participate in equipping the thermal station, but the two countries’ demands to the Syrian government for huge sums, amounting to 270 billion euros, prevented this,” al-Ahmar added.
The Syrian government concluded the contract with Iranian companies to supply the thermal station in Aleppo, and the payment process for the Iranian government will take place five years after the fifth unit took off, according to the same sources.
The thermal station stopped feeding the city of Aleppo and its countryside after the armed opposition took control of the city at the end of 2012.
Al-Ahmar stressed that “the Iranian company has been working at the station since the beginning of March 2018, and has prepared the sites for engines and furnaces inside the station.
The first preparations to install the fifth unit at the station arrived a few days ago, to work on taking off on time next year.