Iran to expand
electricity export to neighbors
Nov. 16, 2005 (MNA)
"Connecting Iran's electricity grid to those of the
republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq
through the Iranian provinces of Eastern Azarbaijan
and Western Azarbaijan is quite plausible", said an
Iranian provincial official.
"Skilled human resources, vast production of equipments
used in the electricity generation industry and making
use of the world's state-of-the-art technologies in
the sector have created great opportunity for us to
boost our electricity exports", noted head of Iran's
electricity company. "Moreover, we have many proficient
contractor companies specialized in developing power
plant building projects whereas, our neighboring countries
usually lack one of the two required resources, therefore
Iran has the potentials for turning into the region's
electricity exchange hub", the managing director TAVANIR
(Iran's Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission
Company) said. "Some of our neighbors, such as Afghanistan
and Iraq and also the eastern parts of Turkey and
the regions located in the west of Pakistan, are heavily
in need of our surplus electricity", Persian service
of ISNA news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Vahdati as
saying on Friday.
In addition, he added, given the different off peak
and on peak electricity times in our country and our
neighboring countries, electricity exchanges are in
the interests of the both sides.
Referring
to the connection of Iran's electricity grid to those
of the neighboring countries Vahdati stated that preliminary
works are underway to that effect to connect Iran's
electricity grid to those of Georgia, Russia, Syria,
Lebanon and Tajikistan.
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