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Managing Director of Power Distribution Company of Kordestan Hiva Lahounian declared today Iran’s Kordestan province power generation unit has the capacity to provide Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah with 300MW of electricity.
He added that should the necessary infrastructures on both sides be provided. the figure can increase to 900MW in the long term.
His Iraqi counterpart in Sulaymaniyah province Salar Hisamuddin this week that there is the necessary coordination between Iraq’s central government and Sulaymaniyah for purchase of electricity from Iran.
Noting that because of Sulaymaniyah’s failure to pay its debts to Iran. it is no longer possible for the province to import Iranian electricity. the official said that the local officials expect the Iraqi central government and the president to step in and solve the problem.
Despite major obstacles the United States has created for Iran`s energy customers. Iraq continues to purchase gas and electricity from Iran.
Iraq is the biggest importer of Iranian electricity for more than a decade. The Arab neighbor needs at least 23.000 megawatts of electricity to meet domestic demand. Decades of war. civil strife and terror attacks have destroyed its power infrastructure. Iraq has a power deficit of 7.000 MW.
In Summer. the temperature rises to near 50 degrees Celsius in the country. making its demand for gas and electricity increase exponentially.
Iran is a major energy generator in the region supplying its neighbors with oil. gas and electricity.
Last week. Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Haeri and Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan. in a meeting in the capital city of the Caucasian country. exchanged views on ways to increase energy cooperation between Tehran and Yerevan. particularly extending the power grid between the two neighboring countries.
At the meeting in Yerevan. Haeri and Grigoryan discussed setting up a grid for electricity transmission.
Grigoryan said that the preferential tariff agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) served as a suitable opportunity for developing bilateral and multilateral relations.
During the meeting both sides underlined the importance of following up regional interactions in energy field.
