Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.30
By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Turkey stopped electricity import from Iran since the end of May 2016, while its cumulative power import from its eastern neighbour stood at 545 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in the period of five months of 2016.
Turkey’s power import from Iran plunged in March (beginning of Iran’s fiscal year).
Turkey's electricity imports from Iran (million kilowatt hours)
|
Months |
From Iran |
|
January |
215,944 |
|
February |
213,122 |
|
March |
110,753 |
|
April |
1,088 |
|
May |
2,227 |
|
Total |
545,150 |
According to Iran’s Energy Ministry’s official statistics, the country exported over 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity to Turkey during the last fiscal year (ended on March 21).