Iran’s daily exchange of electricity hits 1.77GWh

TEHRAN,Jan.29(MNA) --Iran exchanged some 1.77 gigawatt hours (GWh) of power electricity with its neighboring countries on Friday . Armenia exported and Iraq imported the highest amounts of electricity to and from Iran with 294 megawatts and 1.013 gigawatts, respectively, the report added. The electricity exports totaled 1.318 GWh to Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Pakistan and Turkey and the imports amounted to 452 megawatts from Armenia and Turkmenistan. The deputy Iranian energy minister has predicted that the country’s value of electricity exports would hit $1 billion by the end of the current calendar year (March 20, 2012). Mohammad Behzad said that three billion dollars worth of technical and engineering services in the power sector will be also exported by the yearend. "Iran currently exchanges electricity with Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq," he said. By the end of the fifth national development plan (2015) Iran will boost its electricity generation capacity by 25,000 megawatts, Energy Minister Majid Namjou said in October 2011.