August 5, 2025 – Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Dr. Saleh AL-Kharabsheh announced that the Higher Steering Committee for Rural Fils approved, during its meeting, the lists of homes and locations that benefit from electricity connection via conventional networks. These lists total 215 homes and locations across the Kingdom, with a total cost of 930,000 dinars.

AL-Kharabsheh stated in a press statement that the approved projects include residential areas and economic activities within and outside the regulatory boundaries. This follows the expansion of the basis for electricity connection at the expense of the rural fils program under recent amendments, with the aim of improving the level of services provided and supporting target groups.

For his part, the Director of the Electricity and Rural Electrification Directorate at the Ministry, Engineer Hisham Al-Momani, explained that the decisions included supplying electricity to residential communities consisting of five homes outside the planning boundaries with a cost of 150,000 dinars, and to three homes outside the planning boundaries at a cost of 155,000 dinars. Additionally, individual homes outside the planning boundaries benefiting from existing networks will receive electricity at a cost of 48,000 dinars. Additionally, the projects will support the homes of poor families located within the planning boundaries in electricity company concession areas at a cost of 3,000 dinars, supporting low-income families.

The projects also included support for poultry, cattle, sheep, and fish farms in poverty pockets outside the planning boundaries at a cost of 47,000 dinars. This is to strengthen the Ministry's role in supporting farmers, encouraging livestock production, and promoting self-reliance. Furthermore, 20,000 dinars will be allocated to lighting the roads leading to cemeteries to facilitate the movement of citizens during burials at night.

Al-Momani pointed out that the Rural Fils Fund also contributed to support productive, industrial, and investment projects in poverty pockets and outside the regulatory boundaries, in accordance with approved criteria, provided that these projects provide job opportunities for Jordanians and support the local community. The Rural Fils Fund's contribution to these projects amounted to JD 300,000. The projects also included the support for farms with artesian wells outside the regulatory boundaries, at a cost of JD 82,000, with the aim of supporting agriculture and achieving food security. It also supported cooperative and charitable projects at a cost of JD 12,000, and government projects and agricultural and charitable cooperatives at a cost of JD 20,000.

He also pointed out that over the past ten years, the Rural Fils has worked to increase the capacity of the transformer stations it built at its own expense to address the weak electricity supply and reduce losses. The cost of this support amounted to 49,000 dinars. In the field of renewable energy, the Rural Fils approved the installation of grid-connected solar cell systems for 44 homes belonging to poor families and beneficiaries of the National Aid Fund. This is aimed at reducing the monthly energy bills for this group, which will contribute to improve their income and standard of living.