India will build a new power plant in Iran to import electricity from
the country, Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou said on Sunday.
Iran plans to export 6,000 megawatt hours of electricity to India and
Pakistan, the Mehr News Agency quoted Namjou as saying.
The proposed power plant has the capacity to produce 6,000 megawatt
hours of electricity. India will import 4,000 megawatt hours and some
2,000 megawatt hours will be exported to Pakistan, Trend reports.
Iran seeks to become a major regional exporter of electricity and has
attracted more than $1.1 billion in investments for the construction
of three new power plants.
Iran's installed power generation capacity is currently about 67
gigawatts (GW), Namjou said.
The Energy Ministry plans to increase the electricity generation
capacity by 5GW this calendar year, which ends on March 20, 2013.
Last year, Iran exported 8.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity to
its neighbouring countries and the figure is projected to hit 10
billion kilowatt hours, he noted.
By the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (March
2016), Iran will boost its electricity generation capacity by 25GW to
reach 73GW, Namjou said on February 7.
Iran currently trades power with Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan,
Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
