Three Stations Offline
Three power generation stations — Deir Ali, Al-Nasiriyah and Tishreen — went out of service on 30 September 2026 after an explosion on a gas line at the Tishreen station, the national electricity company announced. The blast halted the gas supplies the plants need to operate.
The operator responsible for the national grid said the simultaneous loss of three stations removed a large block of generating capacity from the network at once.
Explosion at Tishreen
The rupture struck the gas line at the Tishreen station, cutting off the fuel the turbines burn to produce electricity. The company said the fire caused by the explosion was still burning while specialized teams worked at the site to contain it.
The cause of the rupture was not detailed in the announcement, and the company said its crews were continuing to deal with the incident.
Gas-Fed Generation
The affected plants rely on gas to turn their turbines, so a break in the line feeding one of them can idle the units it supplies. The announcement tied the shutdown directly to the interrupted gas flow rather than to a fault inside the stations themselves.
That link matters for recovery: restoring output depends on securing the gas line at Tishreen before the stations can be brought back.
Longer Rationing Hours
With the three plants down, the company warned that the amount of electricity generated would fall temporarily and that rationing hours would increase, a direct consequence of the reduced generating capacity.
Rationing is administered by capping the hours of supply, so a drop in available capacity typically means fewer hours of power for consumers drawing on the affected grid until the units return to service.
Updates to Follow
The company said it would issue successive updates on the status of the stations and on the state of the electrical supply as the situation developed. It gave no timeline for restoring the units.