How A Country Ran Out of Power for 24 Hours: Lebanon's Energy Crisis - TLDR News
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For 24 hours over the weekend, Lebanon was entirely without electricity - the countries whole electricity network powered down due to fuel shortages. So in this video we explain why this happened and why it's actually far bigger than fuel and could signal a huge issue for the country going forward.
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By the way, there was also a huge fire just 2 hours ago in an oil facility in Lebanon. I get why they didn't talk about it though, it happened way too recently and they weren't going to remake the video just to add that detail but they lost around 300 000 liters of oil. Just when you think it can't get any worse, incompetence finds a way to prove you wrong.
It was a sabotage job
Mossad
@@andrewbull4175 Keep blaming the Mossad for everything. Thats how corrupt politicians in Lebanon get away stealing money off the Lebanese people.
It was petrol, not oil
@@MarkushenrikDrolsum ...petrol is just refined oil buddy.
Is the whole world suffering an energy crisis at this point?! Also hope all goes well for the people in Lebanon
It looks like it. I want to know if you people think that this just shows that we shouldn’t be reliant on foreign gas and oiL for our energy?
@@БоянМихов-м9э we shouldn't be reliant on oil or gas at all.
Also, who is "you people"?
@@БоянМихов-м9э sure and despite it feels bad to pay more for the bills at the end of the month (talking about eu where power supply is more or less under control but prices go north day by day) I hope it shakes people and make them see that green energy is the only sustainable solution not only environmentally but also economically
@@jacobedward2401 I think you people is us in the comments
@@sarantis1995 is really interesting as an admin law and & econ regulation student, we are studying the energy crisis and actually, a big issue with green energy is that it is not easy to store, yeah batteries, but that’s not more efficient than tanks and tanks of gas, which can be liquified. I do agree we have to go green, but this is a issue that we do need to address as a transitory problem. Personally nuclear is a way to go, as it helps fight climate change even though it is not that environment friendly
I'm from Lebanon and would be awesome if other countries could help us build a power grid that uses renewable energy sources to stop importing fuel
@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr I think on a large scale it is possible (I didn't calculate the costs) but I'm sure if the government collects a monthly payment it should be able to pay for it
@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr even full scale replacement every 30 years is cheaper than running costs of oil plants over the same period. while it sounds like a lot in terms of absolute dollars, a grant of a few billion for panels/turbines and the related storage, something like liquid air storage. would functionally speaking be problem solved
@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr every 30 years? Seems profitable, i bet solar panels could repay their cost many times over before 30 years
The only option for stable energy supply is nuclear with 2 year stocks of uranium. All the countries with too much renewables are getting screwed right now. 70% nuclear 30% renewables with 20% backup with fossil fuels like France is the best.
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
I'm watching this while we still don't have power, my UPS is slowly dying rn
Lol
@@goodguyyt ikr really funny
@@nalat1suket4nk0 my city could face blackout so
I don't know how to react
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
@@StephenRayner Don't be ridiculous china is not going to invade taiwan any time soon. they know it would start a world war. not to mention that china's own tech companies are dependant on those chips aswell.
hmm asking the army to step up and help in supply related issue is starting to feel like a deja vu.
BRITAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If their hospitals have a lot of covid patients on ventilators whilst there is a long power cut that's not good, lets just hope the hospitals have enough diesel for emergency generators.
From what I've been told by someone who runs a hospital near me, they have 2 UPS devices, each able to last for 8 hours, in case of electricity cuts. I don't know if that's still the case now, though. Besides, it's not only COVID patients, every patient on life support would instantaneously die, including others who will slowly die over the course of the week, cancer patients being one of them (if i remember correctly - not too knowledged with the way cancer is treated)
Yes because of the sudden increase in fuel prices (especially coal) due to the rapid rise in demand as economies open up after covid.
@@PiyushGupta-vx6qi Its not really a demand issue, its more supply as over the last year there has been a global underinvestment in energy markets. Its been a bad investment so people avoided energy stocks, the energy companies avoided investments in turn which lowered production.. The production increase takes months, in some cases nearly a year to get back when they initialize it. Most energy producing countries will not be able to meet demand by winter, esp in china and europe. There could be blackouts in Germany if they are not careful.
Me: gets ready to sleep
TLDR: uploads video
Me: 10 more minutes I guess
I watch during my first cup of coffee in the morning
Question: I always keep hearing that it is incredibly difficult to restart an energy grid from nothing after a full blackout, and I have read that Lebanon is in deep trouble yesterday because of exactly this. How did Lebanon manage to restart their grid so quickly? Are these blackouts not as huge concern as they are sometimes made to be?
My preschool level understanding is that if there is an unexpected and uncontrolled shutdown of a power generation facility there end up being short circuits from the current not being equal as it crosses connections all around the grid
As fuel supplies were reaching critical levels they knew they were running out so they had the 5-10 minutes to systematically shut down regions as needed until it just made sense to shut it all down.
In Texas The grid operator knew some production sites were down for maintenance and couldn't be restarted quickly enough. Then has the extreme cold hit some facilities did better than others coordinating the shutdown.
The grid operator admitted they were 4 minutes from major sections of the Texas grid shorting itself into destruction. Which really would have been another full scale catastrophe.. with the supply chain issues we already have, I don't want to go far down the path of how bad that would have been.
So, it's all about a controlled shutdown or massive firework show from thousands of miles of power lines and substations shorting out at once.
The thing is that there is enough fuel for everyone but it is hidden. All these problems are made up, bcuz the fuel price was still until few days ago monitored by the government. And bcuz the EDL is unable to provide long term electricity ppl rely on private electricity which is theft, last time I was in Lebanon, 1M pounds for 12h electricity... Didn't bring electricity even 1 minute. It's theft.
restarting a collapsed power grid is complex but that is the job of the electric company, they know how to do. the think is it's time-consuming because you have to restart power plants one by one, and then restore power to the grid small bits by small bits, adjusting the output of your plants every time.
For as long as I remember, we've never ever had 24/7 electricity. We currently actually living in hell: no electricity, no power, No medications, no future. Our savings are now worthless and we're not even allowed to touch any of them. Electiins are due soon and everyone ua going to vote for the same politicians that got us here. Pray for Lebanon.
You people need to force a new constitution, one modeled after european countries. The system of dividing the government in 3 for the 3 religions needs to end because that system fosters corruption.
I hope your country can recover from all this soon. You guys really have seen a lot in the past few years
Sheesh that's harsh
I hope the situation can get better soon....
Kill hizbollah and you might stand a chance.
@@RoScFan Yea it sounds easy to just say to abolish that but there is a reason it exists. It’s either that or civil unrest/war.
News like this reinforces the knowledge that I'm blessed to live in Canada, an energy super-power. I hope things work out for Lebanon.
Way to rub it in -_-
@@hrishabkumarsharma1355 there is nothing wrong with feeling grateful for the good things in life
@@julianatlas5172 yeah Ik. Still makes me jealous tho
@@hrishabkumarsharma1355 my comment wasn’t to rub it in. Those who are fortunate should realize it and help those who aren’t.
@@chnadeau1 yeah no I got that
It's not just electrecity, think about it if you don't have oil for cars and etc how is food, medicine and supplies going to get in lebanon or just to get from a city to another, you can't go out whenever you want because you don't have oil, you can't do online classes during covid, some schools are doing 2 to 4 days a week, public schools are closed
Great video as always :)
If interesting enough for a video, could you please make a one about the coal shortage (and energy crisis) in India?
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
The whole world is having an energy crisis
it's all part of a collapse trend.
Not in my country (developing Asian country)
@@לעזאזלעםגוביידן poakiston
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
Lebanon has always had these issues for more than 30 years
We should always be fighting against corruption every day and everywhere.
buying oil is temporary solution and very short sighted. They should start investing in renewables as soon as they can as fast as they can. India and china are already heavily investing in renewables. Its not just clean. Its actually more profitable and long term solution.
No. More fossil fuels.
They should just source their fuel sources locally if possible.
I don't know what kind of hydrocarbon Lebanon has, but they should use that.
The only renewable worth a damn is Hydro-electric.
With what money though ?
@@VME-Brad Genius. Using hydro-power in the middle of a desert, in a country which literally imports water.
@@mathskafunda4383 no idea as to the layout of the country. and my actual suggestion was to use whatever version of fuel they have locally (Obviously not oil since they import it, but maybe coal, or natural gas?). just saying that solar and wind aren't worth a damn. obviously you can only use hydro-electric with a river.
"Halt vital procedures" is such an elegant way to describe something that could be described with just one word.
You could do so much more with lighting to make the host look so much better. Looking forward to increased quality
Removing the host completely and going back to only the animation would be preferred.
Love your work guys, keep it up
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
I'm not sure but I think in India our own coul supplies will be depleted next week or so. We have already started with the load shedding in some states.
Feel like your describing my country South Africa in the next 5 years
Sadly things can always get worse.
As far as foreign aid is concerned, I would say that the best way to go is to donate fuel and also assist in setting up solar power plants. Without oversight, just handing out money is a bad idea since a large portion of it will end up in the pockets of corrupt officials. While donations can be sold by corrupt officials, it’s a bit harder to take advantage of as opposed to simply handing over Benjamin’s. If a developed country can help set up solar power, it would help since it would create jobs, is cheaper to operate than fossil fuels, and even if they screw it up, it won’t literally blow up in their faces.
It's called going bankrupt and unable to pay the bills.
Lebanon heavily relies on fossil fuels so it needs to invest in renewables, but renewables are expensive. Partners like the EU should help them invest in solar, it's a super sunny country.
Shouldn't invest until Hezbollah is destroyed and Israel is recognized. No country can be very successful when it refuses to trade with an extremely rich neighbor out of hatred. They should help themselves before anyone lends a hand.
Britain's driver shortage is fixable but THIS, this is just HORRIBLE.
You should make a video lebanons crisis not just the energy run out
I am, perhaps oddly, reminded of when England attempted to switch to guncotton 'too early' and had problems with self-detonation that had them hold back from switching to Guncotton till long after the problem was solved. Course, I don't think that sort of hesitancy will help in a global climate crisis, which is a long way from saying it won't happen.
Atleast the mt lebanon is still fine. These days i live in uk and when i visit i usually go to my dads family in mt lebanon
2:32 did anyone notice he said “with the” twice?
Will you guys cover Romania’s political crisis on TLDR News EU?
It’s scary. Worse than anywhere, yet
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
Someone forgot to plug in the charger at night.
This happens in South Africa all the time.
Who spotted the editing mistake 2:32 and now can't unsee it
Great video!
Great video 👍🏽👍🏽
you guys should talk abt elections in Iraq🙂I mean only 4-5 million ppl voted from 40 million citizens in Iraq🤣 it should make a nice story.
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
@@StephenRayner yeah and iran and the USA are going into a conflict world war 3 because of that one general... oh wait... they de-escalated it because a conflict between nuclear powers would only hurt both countries... oh....
@@StephenRayner going to war with China is a death wish yo the world.
@@StephenRayner stop spamming the same message over and over again, you fake Nostradamus. Nobody cares about your predictions.
It's a weird election.
You can't vote for anyone you like
I went to vote but didn't find what the people I wanted to vote for
So sad i was looking forward going to Lebanon soon
The pound picture used is wrong, it has more zeroes than it should
謝謝分享最新的內容，希望黎巴嫩的人民盡快找到方式脫離債務的泥沼。
Some good news surely = it’s good for the environment.
It happened to Brazil once
Opinion: That's what happens when a failure(fukushima) set almost every country in the world against nuclear. Plus the general public fear of things they don't understand.
What a grand idea! Let's build a nuclear power station in Lebanon, I'm sure there will be no security issues at all.
Even without nuclear this wouldn't be a problem when politicians were not so incompetent
if lebanon has nuclear reactors, they would struggle to afford to buy uranium because they dont have domestic mines
Incompetence of government is the cause. Constant spending and looting of government coffers will result to a country being like Nauru.
Was wondering why we have heard nothing about this in US media. Then, 7:20 comes along
That's odd. I can see a lot of European and Asian media covering this news on TH-cam.
The world needs to intervene.
The power isn't even back bruh
Still about 6-4 hours a day or if luck strikes 8 hours a day
Dont turn on internet, keep u r phone on power saving mode.
I can only imagine the power coming on in the middle of the night and waking up to make ice and play video games. Lol
@@scoobydoobers23 lol, i bet there are people dong this
pain
I'm wondering when Turkey steps in and says..."we can help you... if you give us your country"
Oh they did dw 😂
Solar power seems like it would be more reliable in Lebanon than in some places.
Also, a nuclear plant with fuel rods purchased from overseas would be good.
These are clearly solvable problems. I guess the question really is how will they pay for it at the moment.
This isn’t how our currency looks like
with such a currency crash surely exports would become mighty competitive? Yea they need fuel and they need money for fuel but to get that money they need to be selling goods abroad. So I gess the real question is why we don't see made in Lebanon stickers on everything?
Why don't they just buy a generator?
EU & US should view this as warning - all current EU power trouble due to bad politicks thus self inflicted - france and germany should brig there nuclear power plants back online and forget this idiot green talk. It will cause hard to ecnomy and employment and finally security. Also fiscal policy should be sound which it is not - most economies actually in
solvency but none dare say so !
2:13 half of the country is BELOW poverty
iirc it's ~70%, I think i could be wrong tho
Edited
Bruh
Coming to a town near you! If you live in the uk
How is their infrastructure built? Who runs their power grid? How did whatever get to a point where this could happen?
And we are going too..
Am i the only one realising the random cuts in this video like when it sound like hes repeating the same word again and again as ive seen this in other videos
02:30-02:33
Lebanon: *Runs out of power*
South Africa: First time?
The root issue is that Lebanon imports 10 times as much as it exports. The goverment has no hard currency left, the banks have been forced to buy bonds to keep the country afloat, but the banks are now close to bankrupcy and have been drained of hard currency. 50% of all calories consumed in Lebanon are imported so this will soon get really bad. Is there a way to solve it? Only if Lebanon starts producing something that the rest of the world wants to import, there is just no other way out of this spiral.
As a lebonese person myself i ddint know that the issue for electricity was because of the currency i thoguht it was because they are hiding some
Lebanon is about as corrupt as the galactic senate in star wars.
This really just shows that we should not be completely dependent on oil and gas
How can you change to renewable energy if you don't have money
Nuclear phobia smh
I am wondering why not everyone got a solar panel(s) in Lebanon and that small towns/villages have not built their own wind turbine or solar farm - look at ROI and cost of making electric via wind and solar and you looking at a lot of money saved via end users esp when compared to burning oil to power the country - depending on location ROI on a wind turbine is 3 to 5 years and it produces the cheapest electric available
Since the country is so poor, they probably can't afford a ROI of several years. As it is the case everywhere, it takes money to make money.
Winter is coming, war is coming
Bro... the world is going to shit... China's about to invade the democratic country Taiwan which makes the whole worlds computer chips. The UK, USA, Japan and France all have warships and subs in the waters near Taiwan. The USA has been training Taiwanese military for around a year minimum.
@@StephenRayner Stop spamming your inaccurate BS.
This is what we were asking years ago even before this crisis
This, with the raising prices of oil and gas worldwide could happen anywhere anytime. Don't be complacent thinking it won't happen to me, it easily could.
this is what our Future looks like Carbon Neutral , IMHO
Damn dude it’s crazy how some cities are starting to look like Chernobyl.
South Africa: 24 hours? Lol that's cute
So Nuclear Power Plants arent stupid after all...
It's all according to plan.
Lebanon: And then it got worse
I think it's because the power producers don't expect world's economic recovery this fast.
Was it brexit?
Usually is on this channel.
man is no one watching the videos after editing them? love your content but the imprecise cuts are in like every or every other video now
0:13 Don't forget Afghanistan struggling to pay its electricity bills!
It’s because of the primitive pashtun talibans that do not understand how to govern a country.
i think the afghans have bigger problems right now.
@@ggripen Pakistan isi back it
Why do you have few extra 0s added to the 1000 LL bill
I know that smaller countries CAN'T do this but this situation highlights the importance of countries to be self sustainable. There is NO reason a rich country like Canada should be buying oil from the middle east. Lebanon COULD invest in some kind of power source that it can rely on but I don't know enough about the country to say
There isn't money, you need the money
@@nalat1suket4nk0 it's not about literal money. Switzerland has tons of money but no natural resources
We have oil, but we aren't allowed to get it out bcuz that'll upset Israel. Welcome to Western Dominance.
@@justanotherfrenchie yep it's BS. Canada has more freshwater than the rest of the world combined but refuses to sell it because "humanitarianism". It's a shitshow all around
Your analysis is missing the Saudi and Iranian conflict. Lebanon relayed on trust and aid from saudis and UAE.
Because of Hizb allah Lebanon now lean to Iran and for that reason the Saudi and uAE aid stopped.
Also most of Lebanese live very expensive life style while their productivity is very low. For years Lebanon relay on aid and borrowing from foreign banks to fund their needs. Now that stopped and that pushed Lebanon to bankruptcy.
looks like lebanon is going to dissapear from the map.
Solar batteries and panels are the solution for citizens in such sunny country.
Only if they had the money sigh
Sounds a bit like South Africa in some ways. ("Temporary" load shedding has been around for years, now). Main difference is that we have more coal than God, here.
I personally prefer it if you're not visible in the video. With all due respect, you're distracting. Just the presentation is ok.
This is baby shit. We had week long outages in iraq at times
Could you do a video about the recent Iraqi Election
It’s a very important one and a turning point for Iraq
Welcome to the future of South Africa!!!!
Lets go back to the gold standard, to think gaddafi was smoked out because of saying this.
We should be helping Lebanon to move away from fossil fuels and move towards renewable energy.
If you’re not worrying about when the power might run out you can focus on rebuilding the economy.
Lebanon doesn't want the west's help. It's allied with Iran and hates Israel.
"Renewable energy" is a scam.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Not accurate in the least bit.
@@jadapinkett1656 You're right, Hezbollah loves Israel and Uncle Sam. I'm so stupid.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 that's not true, the goverment is but not the people
really sad for lebanon, i've never seen a country so deep in shit, there is lessons to be drawn...
Nothing at all can be done. Hezbollah and allies control parliament, the presidency and the government. The energy ministry has also been in the hands of tayyar, Hezbollahs biggest ally, for decades.
The ministry had been running on a weird deficit of 1.5 billion a year, and they refuse to hand it over to anyone else.
just print more money
Western countries could have helped by assisting developing countries with renewable energy. Which we talked about doing but never did, now there's a worldwide energy shortage. If I lived in one of those developing countries, I would totally side with China or Iran.
The problem is how to they go about it.
Corruption needs first to go
Exactly. No country except China and Iran had offered immediate help, while the west only offers us sanctions we know never affect the corrupt but the ppl and only the ppl. And if our government dares to accept a Chinese or Iranian offer we become traitors or submissives.
@@justanotherfrenchie Help from China or Iran always comes with strings attached. They don't help anyone out of the kindness of their hearts.
@@jascrandom9855 💯% correct. But I don't think the west helps out of pure kindness too don't you think? Don't get me, I adhere to Western values and I love it but in matters of politics you have to excuse me.
Follow El Salvador's example... 🤣
We have a money crisis which is worse than just an energy crisis.
My Decaying Nation
Country is simply cursed
Clearly we need a global energy grid, and lots of nuclear power stations bringing online.
India can give them solar panels. (On some terms and conditions)
Or
Just Indian Govt. can donate them.
Or the solar companies which has a great amount of profit can just give them solar panels (donate or on rent or on T&C)
India itself imports solar panels from Chyna😅
India itself has energy crisis
At least its warm there. Imagine if this happened in Russia or Scandinavia
It gets very cold in the winters. Lebanon is a snowy country.
@@j.k.6865 ah yes I remember Lebanon being a mountainous country. Am I right
Um the 1 000 000 LBP bill on 2:10 is not real, there is no such thing as a 1mil bill, its a photoshopped version of the 100 000 one. Lebanese here :)