Power restored in Syria’s Tel Tamr after 2 years of outage
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Power Department in the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah, a governorate northeastern Syria, completed on Wednesday the maintenance electricity to 10 villages in the town after two years of power outage.
Due to Turkish shelling, 34 villages in the countryside of Tel Tamr witnessed power outage, according to Fahad Sam’ila, co-chair of the Power Department.
The Power Department could not repair the electrical fault because the area is on the contact lines with Turkish forces, he added.
Sam’ila told North Press that they have worked on restoring power to villages, west of Tel Tamr, for two months, after power lines were damaged due to the Turkish shelling.
The project of restoring power will be finished after securing all the necessities to repair electricity in the rest of the affected villages.
Since October 2019, Turkey has halted service at the station about 27 times; the last time was in the middle of July due to a malfunction in the Derbasiyah power station that feeds the station.
The malfunction was caused by Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), who fed the station with eight megawatts, while it is designed to operate at three megawatts.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25,000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo governorate in northwest.
The town has been under constant attack by Turkish forces and their SNA factions for more than two years.