Off-grid solar capacity in Syria reached 2,060 MW in 2025, against 189 MW grid-connected
Claim ID
SOLAR-001
Exact or summary claim
Off-grid solar capacity in Syria reached 2,060 MW in 2025, against 189 MW grid-connected
Destination
Chapter 8
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
IRENA, Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026, printed pages 23, 43 and 47, read at the rendered page (SRC-314); prior edition SRC-315; The National (SRC-317); The Syria Report standfirst (SRC-318)
Source type
Official statistical publication of an intergovernmental agency
Published
2026-03-31
Accessed
2026-08-22
Measure and scope
Installed off-grid solar photovoltaic capacity in megawatts at end-year, Syrian Arab Republic; series begins 2022 and has no earlier value in either edition; the 189 MW on-grid figure is total solar 2,249 minus off-grid 2,060 and is an author calculation on two IRENA tables
Known conflict
IRENA revised the same series between consecutive editions: off-grid solar for 2024 was 2 MW in Renewable Capacity Statistics 2025 and 1,500 MW in the 2026 edition, a factor of 750; total solar for 2024 moved from 60 to 1,606 MW. The 2022 and 2023 values moved likewise. IRENA's own Syria country profile, last updated on its own face on 22 September 2025, still carries 60 MW. [CORRECTED 23 AUGUST 2026; this row read 'of 24 September 2025', the PDF creation timestamp. THIS IS THE CLAIM ROW GOVERNING THE PARAGRAPH THE v4 PASS CORRECTED, and it kept the error the prose had just lost: ADJ-03 of the Chapter 8 v4 diff review.] No explanation appears in either edition's tables or notes; the methodology pages were not searched
Specialist
Power systems and energy planning
Downstream
Chapters 8, 10 and 11
Action
Print only with the as-of year, the publisher, and the fact that every Syrian value carries IRENA's flag 'o' for figures obtained from official sources rather than estimated by IRENA. Never print 2,060 MW as generating capacity or as dispatchable; it is off-grid installed capacity and does not enter the grid supply mix, which is why the World Bank puts intermittent renewables at 0.4 per cent of supply in 2024. Label the 189 MW as this book's subtraction || ACTION NARROWED 23 August 2026 at CF-02 and CF-05 of the Chapter 8 battery, ON THE RENDERED PAGES OPENED THAT DAY. The instruction to state 'that every Syrian value carries IRENA's flag o' IS TOO WIDE AND IS SUPERSEDED. It is true of the 2026 edition's off-grid table, where the Syrian row reads 249.000 o, 931.000 o, 1 500.000 o and 2 060.000 o at research/SRC-E1c_pages/p059.png. It is FALSE of the 2025 edition, where the Syrian row at research/SRC-E1e_pages/p065.png reads 2.000, 2.000, 2.000 with NO FLAG LETTER AT ALL while every other Middle East row carries one. The permitted form names the edition and the table. AND THE MEASURE IS OFF-GRID CAPACITY, NOT ROOFTOP OR HOUSEHOLD CAPACITY: IRENA publishes no rooftop or household series for Syria, so any sentence dividing the 2,060 by a household system size states that it assumes the stock is substantially household systems, and states the direction of the error if it is not.