Following a plan for becoming West Asia’s electricity hub, Iran has been taking serious steps for joining its electricity network with neighbors in the past few years.
The Iranian Energy Ministry has been negotiating with the neighboring countries including Iraq, Russia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and Qatar for the connection of their power networks with Iran to make them enable to import or transmit their electricity to new destination markets through Iran.
The synchronization of power grids with the neighboring countries, not only enhances Iran’s electricity exchanges with them, but it will also increase the political stance of the country in the region.
So far, Iran’s electricities network has been synchronized with Iraq, and back in September, the Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian announced that the electricities networks of Russia and Azerbaijan are the next in line for becoming linked with the Iranian grid in the coming months.
“Within the next few months, the study project of synchronization of the electricities networks of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia will be completed and then the executive operations will begin,” the minister said.
Meanwhile, Ardakanian and Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi held an online meeting in late September to discuss joining the two countries’ electricities networks via sea.
During the online meeting, Al-Kaabi said: “Electricity transfer between the two countries is possible and this proposal should be worked on.”
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