Prime Minister of Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) Abdulhamid Dbeibah ordered the country's biggest steel firm, state-owned Lisco, to halt production due to power shortages, the state-owned Alwataniya TV channel reported on Thursday. The broadcaster said the PM ordered Libyan Iron and Steel Company (Lisco)in the coastal city of Misrata to connect its power plant to the national grid. Lisco is one of the only companies outside the energy sector still exporting products from the country. The plant has a design capacity of 1.7 million metric tons of liquid steel per year. Libya has had a power crisis as temperatures soar with outages of up to 10 hours a day in main cities, sparking protests.
