Turkey’s Karpowership says it’s restoring electricity supply to Lebanon in ‘goodwill gesture’ amid power shortages — RT

 Energy firm Karpowership has said it will once again supply electricity from two of its ships to energy-threatened Lebanon, after the Turkish company stopped providing power to the Middle Eastern nation last month.

Lebanon has been racked by daily power cuts amid its economic crisis for months, and had relied on accessing 370 megawatts of electricity – around 25% of its total supply needs – from a pair of barges run by Karpowership.

However, in May the firm announced it was halting its provisions, claiming it had not been paid by Lebanon for 18 months, was owed more than $100 million, and had been hit by allegations of corruption, which it denies.

On Tuesday, Karpowership announced that it would immediately resume power supplies to Lebanon from its vessels, the Orhan Bey and the Fatmagul Sultan, docked off the country’s coast....rt