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Beirut power: trends and turning points

Barron, Elsa
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Elvidge, Christopher
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Hsu, Feng-Chi
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/14500
 https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/14500
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As the sun set over the Mediterranean this weekend in Beirut, it plunged the 2.4 million person city into darkness. The Lebanese power grid shut down on Saturday due to depleted fuel resources, which comes after months of economic crisis in the country. Footage from BBC news shows families gathered at night under solar-powered streetlights, some of the only lights that remained on in the entire city, using the term "electricity refugees" to describe themselves. This most recent outage captured international attention, but the problem of electricity shortages in Lebanon has been ongoing for months.
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