Salah Tabbara is co-founder of Naseem Akkar Windfarms, Lebanon's first wind energy project that will power 220,0000 homes. In this episode recorded before the August 4th explosion at the Port of Beirut, he talks about the project's progress, how the private sector can help restructure that country's failed economy and eliminate the need for subsidies and ad ... Show More
Apr 2025
MSMEs and the Energy Transition: The Lebanon Case Study
Marc Ayoub and Ahmad Diab discuss with LCPS researcher Rasha Akel the role of Lebanon’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country’s clean energy transition. Drawing on a year-long LCPS mixed-methods study conducted between October 2023 and July 2024, the convers ... Show More
31m 28s
Sep 2022
Ep10: The Story of Jordan’s First Wind Farm
In this episode of Earth, Wind and Solar, we have a captivating conversation with Samer Judeh, co-founder and chairman of the Jordan Wind Project Company, about the 117-megawatt Tafila wind farm. Tafila was the first and largest privately-sponsored utility-scale wind farm in Jord ... Show More
34m 16s
Nov 2021
Thinking about Renewable Energy?
In this episode, we discuss the needed shift to renewable energy following Lebanon's fuel crisis. Whether in households or industries, what does it take to make it happen, how sustainable is it, how affordable, and does it really work?
We will tap into this as well as the need ... Show More
1s
Apr 2021
Lebanon's Energy Sector
This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Jessica Obeid, energy consultant, a senior global advisor at the London-based consultancy Azure Strategy, and an academy associate with Chatham House's Energy, Environment, and Resources Programme. They talk about the Lebanese power sec ... Show More
34m 57s