{"id":128841,"date":"2021-10-10T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-country-of-lebanons-entire-electric-grid-just-collapsed"},"modified":"2021-10-10T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:23:31","slug":"the-country-of-lebanons-entire-electric-grid-just-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-country-of-lebanons-entire-electric-grid-just-collapsed","title":{"rendered":"The Country of Lebanon\u2019s Entire Electric Grid Just Collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-country-of-lebanons-entire-electric-grid-just-collapsed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s entire electric grid collapsed on Saturday when the country\u2019s two main power stations ran out of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the country had been providing citizens with a few hours of electricity a day, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/lebanon-power-beirut-electricity-collapse\/2021\/10\/09\/e2588e88-28fb-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html\" class=\"\"> <i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a><i>. <\/i> Then yesterday, Lebanon\u2019s state-owned power stations, Deir Ammar and Zahrani, ran out of diesel fuel leaving the entire country with no electricity. The outage is expected to last days.<\/p>\n<p>To solve the situation, the Lebanese government is attempting to get emergency fuel from the army and other sources until the country receives and distributes a shipment of oil from Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s entire electric grid collapsed on Saturday when the country\u2019s two main power stations ran out of fuel. For months, the country had been providing citizens with a few hours of electricity a day, according to The Washington Post. Then yesterday, Lebanon\u2019s state-owned power stations, Deir Ammar and Zahrani, ran out of diesel fuel leaving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}