Lebanon:

Lebanon Sitting on Extensive Geothermal Energy (The Daily Star)

(Courtesy CIA.gov)

Energy and Water Minister Arthur Nazarian said Monday that there was more than 70,000 times Lebanon’s annual energy consumption available from geothermal energy.

“The geothermal resource assessment for Lebanon showed that the geothermal energy available in the country is 1,000 million megawatt hours, which is 70 fold the amount of energy needed in Lebanon per year,” he said, adding that only a small quantity could be utilized with the technology currently available.

The minister underlined the need begin work on geothermal energy in Lebanon, as the extraction process takes a long time.

Nazarian said that the ideal scenario would be to meet 0.2 percent of Lebanon’s total energy needs with geothermal sources by 2025.

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