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Lebanon’s energy system has become plural and fragmented — but rebuilding it must not be left to market logic.

As Professor Eric Verdeil of Sciences Po Paris explains, organizing the sector around public service principles—rather than market mechanisms—is essential to reduce the deep inequalities in access and affordability that have long shaped Lebanon’s electricity crisis.

The spread of private generators and high-cost decentralized renewable systems has reinforced social divides, and new legislation risks deepening them further.

To rebuild differently, energy governance must rest on solidarity, justice, and citizen participation — ensuring that renewable power is shareable, inclusive, and accessible to all.

Filmed during our Public Policy Forum on Energy, held in Beirut, October 2025.