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Iran to increase electricity exports to Pakistan

Business Materials 6 March 2014 21:12 (UTC +04:00)
Iran plans to increase electricity exports to Pakistan by 100 megawatt hours, Managing Director of Sistan & Baluchestan Regional Electric Company Moheb-Ali Qazaq-Jahed said on Mar. 5, Iran's IRIB News Agency reported.
Iran to increase electricity exports to Pakistan

Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 6

By Rahim Zamanov - Trend:

Iran plans to increase electricity exports to Pakistan by 100 megawatt hours, Managing Director of Sistan & Baluchestan Regional Electric Company Moheb-Ali Qazaq-Jahed said on Mar. 5, Iran's IRIB News Agency reported.

"Tehran currently exports 70 megawatt hours of electricity to Islamabad," he said.

"The two countries will sign a new contract for electricity exports in the near future," he added.

The Managing Director of the Iran power generation transmission and distribution management company (TAVANIR), Homayoun Haeri, said on Feb. 22, that Iran currently exports electricity to all its neighbouring countries.

"Iran annually exports 15 billion kilowatt hours of electricity," he said.

"Iran is the world's 14th largest electricity producer," he said, adding that the country ranks first in the Middle East.

"Iran is also on top of the list of world's top electricity consumer nations," Haeri noted.

Iran currently trades power with Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.

Iran seeks to become a major regional exporter of electricity and has attracted more than $1.1 billion in investments for the construction of three new power plants.

Based on the Fifth Five-Year Economic ‎Development Plan, Iran should annually add 5000 MW to its power generation capacity.

Iran plans to boost ‎its electricity generation capacity to ‎‎reach 73GW, by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic ‎Development Plan (March ‎‎2016).

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