What happened

Libya's state-owned General Electricity Company (GECOL) said an explosion near the Zawiya power plant knocked several generating units out of service on 15 August. The disruption contributed to a broad blackout affecting Tripoli and other western coastal communities before gradual restoration began. GECOL said technical teams were investigating the cause and working to stabilize the grid; no casualty report, equipment-damage assessment, megawatt-loss figure or final cause was published in the reviewed reporting. Although the explosion followed a multi-day wave of unidentified drone strikes on Zawiya's refinery, desalination equipment, power plant and South Zawiya substation, the available evidence does not establish that this later explosion was another drone attack. It is therefore recorded separately as an investigating explosion rather than folded into the 8–12 August drone-attack marker or attributed to a belligerent.

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