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Syria’ s Deir Ali power plant is the largest in the country

2000s

As Syria shifted investment away from oil-powered infrastructure and toward gas-fuelled power plants, new projects relied significantly on international technical expertise from companies like Siemens

2008-2009

Siemens served as general contractor on the Deir Ali Power Plant – the country’ s largest. The civil works were completed in September 2008. The full plant was commissioned in December 2009 and grew to a total capacity of 1.5GW
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