Syria will receive two floating power plants from Turkey and Qatar, which together will provide additional 800 MW of electricity. Khaled Abu Dey, director general of Syria's General Authority for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, told SANA news agency.

“Two floating power plants will arrive in Syria from Turkey and Qatar. They will produce 800 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to half of Syria's current generation level. This will increase the supply of electricity to citizens by about 50 percent,” the agency quoted the official as saying.

Syria is suffering from an acute shortage of electricity. Most parts of the country are supplied with electricity for only three hours a day. Earlier, Syria's interim government said it plans to provide electricity for up to eight hours a day within two months.

“The extent of the damage caused to power lines, generating and transformer stations during the former regime's rule is very large. We are striving to restore the infrastructure so that the grid can transport electricity efficiently,” Abu Dey stressed.

According to him, the department's specialists are working on establishing transmission lines from the parking place of the floating stations, which will supply the generated electricity to the national grid.