Syria has set itself the goal of producing 5 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2011 however, little progress on this front has been made to date.

“This was an ambitious goal,” Ahmad Kussay Kayyali, minister of electricity, said.
Solar and wind stand as the most promising green energy possibilities. Although three dams on the Orontes and Euphrates rivers produce hydroelectric energy, low water levels have reduced production to just a few hundred MW, instead of the maximum capacity of 1,600 MW.
In 2006, the Syrian government started talks with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to build a 100 MW wind farm near Homs. However, Kayyali said these discussions had come to nothing.
Late last year, Syria also signed a memorandum of understanding with the German company Alternergie to build the country’s first solar electricity plant near Homs. The 3.35bn (EUR 50m) station was expected to start operating with an annual capacity of 10 MW, eventually expanding to 1,000 MW.