Iran and Pakistan signed a number of contracts in the field of
electricity. Last year, exports of Iranian electricity to Pakistan doubled,
and another power line with a voltage of 230 kV will be put into
operation in the near future.
One of the most important joint Iranian-Pakistani projects is the
construction of a power line connecting the city of Iranian Zahedan to
Quetta in Pakistan.
The director of the External Relations Department of the Ministry of
Energy of Iran, Abdolhamid Behbudi Fard, said that the voltage of the transmission line will be
500 kV, and it will deliver one thousand
megawatts of electricity, Iran News reports.
Earlier, Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Behzad said that with the
construction of power plants in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan
with capacities of 1.5 MW and a 700-kilometre transmission line that
will connect Zahedan and Quetta, conditions will be created for the
export of 1 MW of electricity to Pakistan .
