Syria Electricity Emergency Project

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SEEP comprises two investment components (Components 1 and 2), one TA component (Component 3), and one project implementation support component (Component 4).Component 1: Rehabilitation of Damaged High-Voltage Transmission Lines. The activities under Component 1 will focus on rehabilitating high voltage transmission lines including two critical 400 kV high-voltage interconnector transmission lines in Syria that were damaged during the conflict, restoring Syria’s regional connectivity to Jordan and Turkiye. The restored transmission lines are essential for enabling electricity imports into Syria and improving the stability of PETDE’s electricity network. Rehabilitating both lines is considered a no-regret investment that will benefit electricity consumers across Syria for several reasons, including facilitating electricity imports into Syria, connecting Syria’s electricity system back to the regional interconnection network, and contributing to improving the grid stability and reducing the frequency of the blackouts through connecting the Syrian network to stronger networks with adequate frequency control.Component 2: Rehabilitation of Damaged High-Voltage Substations. This component focuses on rehabilitating damaged high-voltage transformer substations and providing necessary spare parts and maintenance equipment. Rehabilitating the damaged substations will benefit electricity consumers across Syria for several reasons. First, restoring the damaged substations near demand centers in the most impacted areas will enable the PETDE to optimize the power flow across its network, reduce high loading levels on existing substations that currently serve the impacted areas, reduce the technical losses and improve operational flexibility of the entire power system. As such, the quality of service for the consumers across PETDE network is expected to improve.Component 3: Technical Assistance for Electricity Sector Development and Institutional Capacity Building. This component will provide TA to (a) inform the Government’s key electricity sector strategies, policy and regulatory reforms, and investment plans for medium to long term sustainability and (b) support the electricity sector institutional capacity to implement these strategies and reforms.Component 4: Project Implementation Support. This component will support the PETDE in implementing the Project using international best practices. It will finance the necessary operational expenses to implement the project. Additionally, it will finance the hiring of a qualified consulting firm, through an international competitive tender process, to act as PETDE’s Owner Engineer (OE). The OE will assist PETDE’s Project Management Team (PMT) by providing essential project management, engineering, site supervision, environmental, social, health and safety, and financial management services during both the construction phase and the subsequent project closure periods.