December 26-2014
For the last several months the government has been boasting unrelentingly about how much electricity it is exporting and how the volumes go up every month. But now a Majlis deputy is charging that government loses money on every kilowatt exported.
Because of subsidies still provided for electricity, Iranian electricity is cheap, even for people in neighboring countries. And all seven countries that have land borders with Iran happily are importing Iranian-produced electricity.
But Deputy Mohammad-Reza Pur-Ebrahimi says that is not good economic planning. He was quoted by Shana, the news agency of the Oil Ministry, as saying Iran should instead export the fossil fuels it is using to generate the electricity it sells so cheaply.
Then, he said, Iran could import twice as much electricity with no additional expenditures.
He said the low level of efficiency in Iran’s electricity generating plants is one of the reasons it costs Iran so much to produce every kilowatt.
