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| Ankara willing to risk U.S. sanctions for cheap Iranian electricity |
| 2007-11-10 |
| Iran and Turkey are broadening their energy cooperation to include electricity. According to recent statements by Turkish Minister of Energy Hilmi Guler, Ankara is determined to proceed with energy agreements signed with Tehran earlier this year. Specifically, on August 20 Turkey signed a deal with Iran to import 3.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from Tehran annually. In return, Turkey has said that it will build three natural gas transformation power plants, with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts, in Iran. He reiterated Turkey's intentions in response to a question posed by a reporter during a press conference held in Istanbul over the U.S. reaction to Turkey's energy deals with neighboring Iran. An Iranian technical delegation is to visit Ankara, arriving November 9 to lay groundwork for an upcoming visit by Iranian Electricity Minister Parviz Fattah. The two countries are expected to conclude an agreement regarding the connection of electricity lines between the two countries during that visit. This development could pave the way for building natural gas plants in both Iran and Turkey, Guler said. The electricity line connections between Iran and Turkey are planned to be finished in a year. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 Turkey and Iran binding themselves closer together. At this rate the Pashas are going to find that overthrowing an overly Islamic government won't be enough to ensure Kemalist secularism. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-11-10 20:39 |
| #1 "Turkey signed a deal with Iran to import 3.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from Tehran annually. In return, Turkey has said that it will build three natural gas transformation power plants, with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts, in Iran." 3.6 billion kWh annually is only a tad over 400 megawatts. So the real story here is not some "exchange" but rather that that the Turks are going to build gas-fueled power plants for Iran. I'd love to know where those will be relative to Iran's uranium enrichment facilities. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-11-10 14:24 |