By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Syria’s transitional government has estimated that $40bn will be required to address overall damage caused to the war-ravaged country’s power infrastructure, Omar Shaqrouq, the electricity minister, told VOA Turkish, citing initial assessments. “The electricity infrastructure as a whole from production to transmission points, high voltage lines and distribution networks is ruined,” he said. “The amount produced right now is really low. The amount is 1,500 megawatts,” he added. Current production can only provide electricity to citizens for two hours a day and sometime…

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