Electricity

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has said that Iran and Turkey have reached agreement on electricity swap. adding that the volume of electricity exports to neighboring Turkey will increase.

Iranian and Turkish energy ministers discussed resumption of trading electricity between the two sides in their meeting in Ankara.

Secretary General of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce informed on Saturday that presently Iran supplies 40 percent of Iraqi’s need for electricity.

Establishment of joint cooperation committee. implementation of the agreements inked between the two countries will result in acceleration.

Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said on Sat. that cooperation between Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan in the field of electricity will be accelerated.

Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that he will hold meetings with Russian officials to pursue the case of Moscow’s loan to Tehran for constructing a 1400 megawatt thermal power plant in the Southern province of Hormuzgan.

Iran is the top technology owner in the field of manufacturing power transformers in the Middle East. said an official at Iran’s Power Generation and Distribution Company (TAVANIR).

More than 82.000 megawatts of electricity have been generated by Iranian power plants in the past five months since March 21 (the start of the local calendar year). which puts the country among the top 9 energy producers in the world.

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said that his country has exported 2.3 billion kilowatts of electricity to the neighboring countries since the start of the local calendar year on March 21.

Iran’s nominal electricity generation capacity reached 80.311 MW at the end of last year and now. it has risen to 80.868 MW.