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Iran improving infrastructure to export electricity to Afghanistan – official

Business Materials 19 July 2018 17:16 (UTC +04:00)

Tehran, Iran, July 19

By A. Shirazi - Trend:

An official with Iran’s Energy Ministry in the eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan said the government is developing basic infrastructures to increase power exports to Afghanistan.

“Infrastructures to create a transmission network and increase the country’s electricity exports to Afghanistan have been developed in Sistan and Baluchestan,” Mohebali Ghazagh-Jahed said on July 19, according to Mehr news agency.

He added that so far several energy projects have been launched in the province, transferring electricity to Sefid-Abeh, Adimi, Lootak, and Hirmand.

He said they have been launched with a finance of 1,570 billion rials in a bid to facilitate energy export to Afghanistan.

The projects in north of the province can help transmit power to industrial regions from two different posts, Ghazagh-Jahed further said.

Iran's electricity industry ranks 14th in the world in terms of output and 19th in terms of consumption.

The country is the largest exporter and importer of electricity in the Middle East and exports power to Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan. Azerbaijan and Armenia supply electricity to Iran under swap agreements.

Iran's installed power generation capacity is around 77,000 megawatts, over 62,000 MW of which comes from thermal power plants that burn fossil fuels along with hydropower plants (12,000 MW), Bushehr nuclear plant (1,000 MW) in south Iran, distributed generation stations (1,500 MW) and renewables (less than 500 MW).

The government aims to bring online 5,000 MW of new power output capacity annually through 2022, the end of Iran's Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan.

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