Spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Energy Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi said that the country exported more electricity to the neighboring countries this year as compared to last year.
“According to the country’s 6th Development Plan, the ministry must reduce the losses of the country’s electricity network to less than 10 percent,” Rajabi added.
Presently, the ministry has managed to decrease the rate of electricity network’s losses to less than 10 percent, the minister said, adding, “accordingly, the trend of nationwide electricity network’s losses last year was on a completely downward trajectory and this will continue this year [started March 20, 2020].”
Turning to the current situation of the country amid the coronavirus outbreak, he stated, “The Ministry of Energy has taken measures to prevent power officials from referring to subscribers’ residences for registering power meters consumed.”
He pointed to the export of electricity by Iran to neighboring countries, adding, “Based on the commitments made in this regard, Iran’s export of electricity will continue on a regular basis this year.”
Meanwhile, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said in August last year that his country had exported 2.3 billion kilowatts of electricity to the neighboring countries since the start of the year (March 21, 2019).
"We have increased power generation as much as 1,800 megawatts each year since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979," he said.
Ardakanian said that Iran has moved up 24 ranks in terms of generation of electricity in the past forty years.