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Governorate profile

Raqqa

A reference profile for Raqqa Governorate covering electricity, hydropower and dams, oil, agriculture, irrigation, water infrastructure and grid rehabilitation. The governorate hosts the Euphrates Dam, one of Syria's most important water and energy assets, with a current official reference design capacity of 880 MW, alongside the Kadiran regulating dam and hydropower station. During 2026, electricity availability in Raqqa city and surrounding rural areas improved to around 16 hours per day in May while 66 kV and 20 kV networks were rehabilitated. Oil-field rehabilitation also resumed, with Al-Thawra field producing around 2,500 barrels of liquids per day in May 2026, while agriculture and irrigation remain central to the local economy.

Population807,00030 Apr 2026
Area19,616 km²Official administrative area
Documented renewable facilities2Not necessarily a governorate total
Reference data

Key indicators

Clean energy

Renewable-energy facilities

Reporting mode: Facility-level records

Hydropower

Tabqa (Al-Thawra) Dam

Unknown
Nominal capacity824 MW
Project typeUtility-scale
Reference date5 Sept 2026
Data qualityMedium confidence
Source date5 Sept 2026
Syrian Renewables — Power plant in Syria.xlsx reference dataset
Methodological note

Workbook row: Hydro; build year 1973. Capacity is nominal/reference hydropower capacity; current available capacity and actual generation are not verified.

Hydropower

Baath Dam

Unknown
Nominal capacity81 MW
Project typeUtility-scale
Reference date5 Sept 2026
Data qualityMedium confidence
Source date5 Sept 2026
Syrian Renewables — Power plant in Syria.xlsx reference dataset
Methodological note

Workbook row: Hydro; build year 1986. Capacity is nominal/reference hydropower capacity; current available capacity and actual generation are not verified.

Service indicator

Daily electricity supply

12hours/day
Minimum8 h/day
Maximum16 h/day
Reporting scopeGovernorate average
Period1 Apr 2026 – 13 Sept 2026
Data qualityHigh confidence
Syrian renewables
Economic structure

Economic profile

Primary sectorAgricultural
AgriculturalIndustrialCommercialOil and gas

Raqqa's economy is primarily based on agriculture and livestock production, particularly wheat, irrigated crops, vegetables and animal husbandry, supported by the Euphrates River and extensive irrigation infrastructure. Oil also represents an important component of the governorate's energy and economic base, with rehabilitation of the Al-Thawra, Al-Rusafa and Sufyan fields continuing during 2026. Industrial and commercial activity is also being reactivated through rehabilitation of grain silos, mills and procurement centres, alongside a new industrial and craft-zone agreement intended as a step toward developing a larger integrated industrial city.

Reference date4 Sept 2026
Data qualityHigh confidence
SANA — Raqqa agriculture, grain marketing and industrial-development updates, 2026
Hydrocarbon assets

Oil and gas fields

Total fields4
Oil fields4
Gas fields0
Mixed fields0
Reference date13 Sept 2026
Data qualityHigh confidence
syrian renewables
Context and analysis

Regional profile

Profile scope

The profile covers energy and water assets located within Raqqa Governorate and their local effects, while separating dams and facilities in neighbouring governorates. Each record must state operator, technical condition, and any relevant control or handover date when these affect data reliability.

Electricity and networks

The open sources used in this phase do not provide a current series for supply hours, loads, or losses in Raqqa. National reporting on outages and generation shortages is therefore not used as a substitute for local operating data, and indicators remain unavailable.

Dams and hydropower

The governorate contains strategic water and hydropower infrastructure on the Euphrates, but the existence of an asset does not establish available capacity or actual generation. Publication requires updated data on operating units, flows, maintenance, and grid connection, separating nominal from operational capacity.

Irrigation and essential services

Energy for pumping, irrigation, and drinking water must be assessed alongside dam and network conditions because service continuity depends on multiple systems. Data from a single agricultural project or pumping station are not converted into a governorate-wide indicator.

Data and action priorities

Priorities are a technical register of dams and hydropower units, measurement of irrigation and pumping energy, documentation of damaged networks and substations, and assessment of solar options for agricultural and public facilities. These are research tracks, not announced capacities.

Major dams and hydropower assets

The current Raqqa reference baseline includes Tabqa (Al-Thawra) Dam with a nominal hydropower capacity of 824 MW (1973) and Baath Dam at 81 MW nominal capacity (1986). These are nominal/reference capacities and do not represent actual generation or available capacity in 2026.

Data transparency

General sources

Power plant in Syria.xlsx — imported reference dataset

Syrian Renewables · 5 Sept 2026 · Medium confidence

Source note

Transcribed without changing the tabular values from the user-provided workbook. Hydropower capacities are treated as nominal/reference values; current generation requires separate verification.