TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Board of Directors of Iran Electrical Industry Syndicate (IEIS) says Iran is able to export electricity to Europe and India with developing its power plant and transmission networks infrastructures as well as managing domestic consumption.
Payam Baqeri said that Iran can export electricity to East Europe via Russian route, emphasizing that Iran is located in a region which can transmit electricity from north to Europe and from east to Afghanistan, Pakistan and even to India and from south to the Persian Gulf littoral states but it requires development of power plant and transmission networks infrastructures and managing the domestic consumption.
On connection of Iran’s electricity grid to the neighboring states in line with materializing programs of national energy hub, he said that exchange of electricity has become serious in the downstream programs and also in the announced policies in the resistance economy, as it bespeaks of its significance.
Baqeri noted that due to Iran’s potentials and its geographical location as well as the needs of the surrounding countries to electricity and due to Iran’s capability in the electricity industry, he can strongly say that Iran is a country that can turn into an electricity hub not only in the region but also above it.
He added that one of the series of plans which should be considered is synchronization of the national electricity network to the regional states like Russia as the feasibility studies in this regard have been conducted, and since Russia’s electricity network is sustainable and it is actually a powerful network, the connection to this network will have many advantages for both states.
Baqeri noted that Iran is linked electrically to all of countries which have land borders with it but in order to become the electricity hub of the region, it needs to take bigger steps and connection to the Russian network can be one of the steps.
He said that currently most volume of Iran’s electricity export is to Iraq and it can increase this amount of export to Iraq with developing the required infrastructures and at the same time the country can import electricity from Armenia and Turkmenistan through connecting to their networks and it can help the country to become electricity hub in the region.
He said there is possibility for exporting electricity to the Persian Gulf states via marine cables and studies are underway and these plans have been also in the past and studies have been conducted.
Baqeri said that Iran currently has some 90,000 megawatts of installed capacities and it makes the country number one in the region and it is one of the important potentials of national electricity potentials.
