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Energy Overview and Indicators

A reference hub connecting the core indicators needed to understand Syria’s energy sector, including supply, demand, infrastructure, policy, projects and emissions.

What does this page cover?

This page is a unified entry point to Syria’s energy-sector data. It connects electricity, renewables, oil and gas, consumption, emissions, policy and projects while keeping fundamentally different indicators separate.

  • Supply, generation, energy mix, and available and operational capacity.
  • Demand and sectoral consumption where verifiable data are available.
  • Projects, infrastructure, policy, prices and emissions.

How to read the indicators

Figures are presented with their unit, reference date, source and data-quality rating whenever possible. Installed or nominal capacity is not treated as available or operational capacity, and capacity is not treated as actual generation.

Announced, planned, licensed, under-construction and operational projects are also kept distinct. Where data are incomplete, the gap, estimate and assumptions are stated rather than hidden behind false precision.

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Syria’s inclusion in the EU’s Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy and Clean Tech initiative, T-MED, signals a notable political shift from crisis-focused engagement toward potential investment and economic recovery. Turning this opening into actual projects, however, will require bankable proposals, regulatory clarity, and credible European partnerships.

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Capacity doubles, production declines — Renewable energy in Syria according to IRENA 2026 figures

Between 2016 and 2025, Syria's installed renewable energy capacity increased from 1,501 to 3,806 megawatts, ranking it fifth in the Arab world. However, production recorded in 2024 reached 862 gigawatt-hours, lower than the 2016 level. This gap between capacity and production is key to understanding the sector today.

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