Jordan will begin exporting electricity to Lebanon in March after finalizing a funding agreement with the World Bank, Jordan’s Energy Minister Saleh Kharabsheh told Saudi owned TV station Al Arabiya.
The US-backed funding deal aims to ease crippling power shortages in Lebanon by transmitting electricity across neighbouring Syria.
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Separately, the Jordanian minister also told Al Arabiya his country would invite international companies to explore for gas and oil from mid-2022.
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