The Rural Damascus–Daraa 400 kV transmission project covered approximately 107 kilometres across southern Syria. Yet the completed double-circuit line required around 2,568 kilometres of phase conductor, supported by thousands of spacers, dampers and insulator assemblies. The difference between those two numbers reveals the engineering hidden inside a high-voltage transmission corridor.
The generation programme signed in November 2025 is usually described by its headline number. The more useful figure is its distribution: 4,000 MW of combined-cycle gas capacity concentrated at four existing plant sites, and 1,000 MW of solar spread across four others. Where the capacity lands determines which parts of the grid it can actually serve.
Turkey set a target of 900 MW of direct electricity exports to Syria by the first quarter of 2026, up from around 300 MW, on a line running from Birecik to Aleppo. Separately, Azerbaijani gas has crossed at Kilis since August 2025. One corridor delivers electricity that must be consumed the instant it arrives; the other delivers fuel that can be stored and burned on demand.
The Syrian Petroleum Company signed a memorandum with Chevron and Power International Holding in February 2026. By 11 May it had received a formal notice to proceed on a selected offshore block, with field operations set for the summer. The interval between those two dates is the part of an exploration project that usually takes longest.
The Arab Gas Pipeline was built to carry Egyptian gas north through Jordan and Syria to Lebanon. Today Jordan imports LNG by sea, regasifies it, and pumps roughly 4 million cubic metres a day north into Syria under a January 2026 agreement worth around $800 million a year. The infrastructure did not change. The direction of dependence did.
Syria produced around 380,000 barrels a day before 2011 and between 50,000 and 80,000 by 2021. With Rmeilan and al-Suwaydiyah returning to central control, Wood Mackenzie expects production to begin recovering in 2026 — not from new drilling, but from workovers, artificial lift upgrades and surface facility repairs. The cheapest barrels are the ones already discovered.
Off-grid solar in Syria grew from 249 MW in 2022 to 2,060 MW in 2025. Utility connected solar over the same period reached 189 MW. Roughly a quarter of Syrian households now have some solar capacity, bought at $2,500 to $4,500 a system in a country with per-capita income near $800. That is not an energy transition. It is a substitution for a grid delivering about four hours a day.