Why are we barely getting 4 hours of electricity per day? Is it because of decades of incompetence and short-sighted solutions? Is it because of political and sectarian interference in the energy decision-making? Is it because of corrupt politicians? Lack of any vision? shady deals? electricity theft? Of course not. The real problem is that we're consuming too much electricity according to Energy Minister Walid Fayyad. How dare we consume more electricity to heat up…

Lebanon’s Energy Minister Walid Fayyad signed yesterday a deal to purchase electricity from Jordan via Syria. The deal is expected to bring up to 250 megawatts of electricity a day within two months, which translates to roughly two extra hours of power per day, and will cost us around $200m which will be funded by the World Bank. So once again, instead of restructuring the energy sector properly, we're going for short term and short…