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2007-11-10 Europe

Ankara willing to risk U.S. sanctions for cheap Iranian electricity

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Posted by 3dc 2007-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#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|| 2007-11-10 14:24|| Front Page Top

#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">trailing wife 2007-11-10 20:39|| 2007-11-10 20:39|| Front Page Top

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