"Currently, we are exporting 200 to 250 megawatts of electricity to Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan,” Spokesman for Tavanir Mahmoudreza Haghifam said on
Tuesday.
The state-run company will increase its exports within the framework of the
agreements reached with these countries, he added.
"As soon as we are ensured about supplying (domestic needs for) electricity, we
increase electricity exports, but our priority is to supply electricity to
domestic customers in different seasons of the year,” the official said.
He went on to say that Tavanir will export a surplus of electric production,
which will have economic and political benefits for the country.
The company had stopped supplying electricity to some neighboring countries,
including Iraq, because of unpaid bills and a rise in domestic consumption in
the summer.
Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardekanian, in a press conference in Tehran back in
February, highlighted the country’s self-sufficiency in the area of power
generation and said the Islamic Republic is the top producer of electricity in
the Middle East.
About 90 percent of power generation equipment, even complicated parts like
turbines and generators, are currently manufactured inside the country, the
energy minister said at the time.
He added that Iran’s capabilities in the area of power generation have developed
over the past four decades so much that the country has become the top producer
of electricity in the region.
Source: Tasnim