Cash and fuel shortages hit Lebanon’s electricity providers

Cash and fuel shortages hit Lebanon’s electricity providers

Lebanon continues to grapple with daily power outages blamed on decades of corruption and mismanagement of its ailing state-owned power infrastructure.

But unlike in recent years, when residents and businesses across the country could rely on costly private diesel generators for electricity, as soon as the national grid goes offline, many Lebanese may soon have to cope with daily blackouts lasting hours at a time.

The owner of a private generator business told The National that the increasing scarcity of diesel will soon force private electricity providers to follow in the footsteps of the state-owned power company Electricite du Liban (EDL), which has been