TEHRAN (Iran News) –Energy Ministry’s Spokesman for the electricity sector Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi says that the electricity sales to Pakistan will be doubled after preparing the ground adding that soon Iran will export electricity to Oman.

Speaking to ILNA, Rajabi Mashhadi said that Iran with all countries that it has land border exchange electricity and regarding electricity export to Oman, the executive work has started and it is in the stage of choosing consultation, design and calculation.

He added that Iran receives electricity from Turkmenistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan and exports to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the country has electricity exchange with Turkey based on the back to back agreement as Iran gets electricity from Turkey for 3.5 days and exports electricity to this country for 3.5 days. He reiterated that the amount of exports and imports is an even level and export is less than 3% of the amount of exchange and transit.

On doubling exports to Pakistan, Rajabi Mashhadi said that the amount of exports to Pakistan is the same as last year and preparations are being made to double the current amount of 40 to 45 megawatts of electricity export to Pakistan.

On synchronizing electricity network with Russia, he said that this has been done but the median network should be reinforced.

On export of electricity to Iraq, he said that export to Iraq is done based on a long term and five-year agreement and cooperation continues based on the agreement.

He said that the total amount of electricity import and export is around 5b kilowatts per hour.

On the domestic electricity consumption, he said that low electricity consumers will get bonus for saving energy, adding that there are over 31m electricity subscribers in the country.

Rajabi Mashhadi admitted there is a disequilibrium in the electricity industry, adding that there is around 11,000 megawatts of disequilibrium in electricity and all should work to bring new power stations to the grid and people’s help in saving electricity consumption will help this disequilibrium to reach its least amount.

He went on to say that repair and overhaul in the power plants has finished by 90% and it is expected all of them to be finished by the end of the current year.

He said that the government has plans to solve the issue of the old power plants and since some of the power plants are in the centers of the big cities, some new power stations should be constructed in those places and it needs to get licenses.

He said that in the first stage, renovation of 3000 megawatts of old power plants in the big cities has been put on the agenda.

Rajabi Mashhadi added that with the plans and actions taken by the related bodies, he expects no power cut in the summer but he urged the people to cooperate with efficient electricity consumption.