The country has gradually halted electricity imports from Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, relinquishing its presence in a regional electric project launched by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
Established several years ago, the project consisted at first of these nations prior to expanding to include others for political and economic reasons, according to al-monitor.com.
Under a recently signed agreement with Tehran, Syria will be supplied with 250MW of electricity which would help the nation compensate for the shortage that resulted, among other things, from the attacks on the power grid.
Syria and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding under which the two countries had agreed to cooperate in the fields of electrical power, renewable energy generation and distribution.
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying that "Syria has suspended purchasing power from Turkey."
"So far, Syria has not ordered any quantities of electrical energy. Before halting the electricity supply, the Daraa region used to be supplied with [Jordanian] electricity," Yildiz added.
Egypt, Jordan and Syria, are members of the electric interconnection project, which also consists of Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine and Turkey.
