Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 28 / Trend F.Milad /
The director of Iran's power industry syndicate has said the country's income out of exporting electricity may reach $10 billion provided that the private sector takes on exporting electricity.
Hamidreza Salehi told the Mehr news agency that transferring electricity exports to the private sector has been stipulated in the fifth five-year national development plan (2010-2015).
During the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (began on March 21), Iran's electricity export to neighbors was 4 billion kwh, ILNA reported earlier, quoting Managing Director of Iran's power network Mir Fatah Qarehbaghi as saying.
"Iran currently exchanges electricity with Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq," he said.
"This year, the volume of Iran's electricity export to Iraq reached the highest rate," he said. "The country imported 100 million kilowatt hour," he added.