Iran exporting water, power industry equipments to 6 countries
Economic Desk
On Line: 06 January 2012 15:41
In Print: Saturday 07 January 2012
Iran is currently exporting items and equipments related to water and
power industries to South Africa, Armenia, Oman, Nigeria, Syria and
Iraq, an Iranian energy official announced.
`Some 40 goods which are strategically important in the power industry
are domestically produced and 6 others have been technologically
indigenized,’ Mohsen Marjan-Mehr told the Mehr news agency.
Iran has reached self-sufficiency in producing equipments for the
domestic power electricity industry, Iran power generation
transmission and distribution management company (TAVANIR) managing
director said earlier this month.
`Iran is currently producing 64,000 megawatts of electricity per year.
The country stands in the 14th place worldwide in terms of electricity
generation,’ Homayoun Haeri added, the IRNA news agency reported.
The deputy energy minister announced in October 2011 that the value of
Iran’s electricity exports will reach 1 billion dollars in the current
Iranian calendar year which ends on March 19.
“Iran’s electricity exports and related technical and engineering
services exports will reach $4 billion this year, of which the
country’s net electricity exports will be $1 billion,’ Mohammad Behzad
explained.
“Iran currently exchanges electricity with Turkey, Armenia,
Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq,” he added.
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