Tag: Electricity

Iran to double power exports to Turkey

Total length of Iran’s power transfer grid currently exceeds 780,000 km.

An Iranian electricity industry official says Tehran is considering a twofold increase in power exports to neighboring Turkey after a new electricity transfer line between the two countries becomes operational.

Mir-Fattah Fattah Gharabagh, managing director of Iran Grid Management Company (IGMC), noted that Iran is currently exporting about 230 kilovolt per day (kV/d) of electricity to Turkey and the new transfer line will increase that capacity to 400 kV/d.

“[The project for] construction of a new power transfer line to Turkey is currently in its final stages,” he added on Friday.

The official said that construction of a new electricity post and completion of the Khoy power plant will also be carried out concurrent with the construction of the new power line.

Iran currently uses two power transfer lines to export electricity to Turkey and the Turkish private sector has been negotiating with the Iranian side to import more electricity.

The country is currently exchanging electricity with Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Nakhichevan, Turkey and Turkmenistan and plans to add 5,000 megawatts of capacity to its power grid annually.

According to the Iranian Energy Ministry statistics, the country will be exporting up to USD 1 billion in electricity by March 2012.

Iran’s total power generation capacity stands at 63,403 MW while total length of the power grid exceeds 780,000 km.

Exchange of electricity with neighboring countries reached 1,341 MW in late December 2010. The top exporter was Armenia with 237 megawatts, and the top importer of Iranian electricity was Iraq with 650 megawatts.

Iran seeks to become a major regional exporter of electricity and has attracted more than USD 1.1 billion in investments to build three new power plants.

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via PressTV – Iran to double power exports to Turkey.

January 7, 2012
Political Endowments and Electricity Market Regulation in Turkey: An Institutional Analysis

Turkey has been going through a liberalization process in its electricity market over the last decade. So far, the regulatory content of the market reforms has been in the center of attention in the literature, to the negligence of regulatory governance. However, recent studies, which applied the theoretical insights of new institutional economics to utilities regulation, have demonstrated that political endowments of the country draw the boundaries to which extent such regulatory content can be effectively implemented. In line with these studies, this paper adopts an institutional approach and attempts to identify the political endowments of Turkey in order to further analyze whether the market reforms succeeded in bringing about sufficient checks to cure the institutional problems. In other words, the paper takes a picture of the overall regulatory arena. The results show that the current regulatory structure, especially government-regulator relations, fails to meet good regulatory governance criteria. The paper also provides some policy suggestions.

Paper in .pdf : d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rsc:rsceui:2011/08&r=ene

via Political Endowments and Electricity Market Regulation in Turkey: An Institutional Analysis.

October 4, 2011
Construction of infrastructure to sell electricity to turkey will cost $500 million

YEREVAN, April 26, /ARKA/. Sevak Sarukhanian, head of Noravank think-tank, told a roundtable today on nuclear energy issues that construction of infrastructure to transport Armenian electricity to neighboring Turkey would cost $500 million.

He said the available infrastructure is not enough to meet the constantly growing electricity needs in eastern Turkey. According to him, power consumption in Turkey has been growing at an average annual rate of 7% since 1950 along with economic growth. He said electricity needs in eastern Turkey also grow 7% a year.

He said serious investments in development of the infrastructure would raise its capacity up to 1000 megawatt and that would facilitate sales of electricity to Turkey. According to him, the available infrastructure is enough to sell 300 megawatt electricity. The cost of such a deal would be $120 million but it would not bring profits to Armenia. He said real results could be achieved only after Turley opens its border with Armenia.

Turkey and Armenia have had no diplomatic ties since Armenia became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for its ally, Azerbaijan, which had a dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan. There are several sensitive issues complicating the establishment of normal relations between the two countries, particularly, Ankara’s blatant support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process and Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge the mass killings of Armenians in the last years of the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. -0-

via Construction of infrastructure to sell electricity to turkey will cost $500 million: expert | 26/04/2011 21:54 | News agency ARKA – Armenian news.

April 27, 2011
US chemical conference – fuels from CO2 and hydrogen

Production, Aug 24 2009 (The Hydrogen Journal)

– A meeting was held during the 238th American Chemical Society national meeting, looking at ways to make jet fuel by reacting carbon dioxide with hydrogen, with researches from the US Naval Research Laboratory, according to an article on Green Car Congress.com.

Normally a large amount of energy would be needed to make the reaction happen (which is not a useful way to make a fuel). But scientists believe that the amount of energy required could be reduced with catalysts.

Tests were made using Co/Pt/Al2O3 catalyst under a range of different concentrations of CO2 : H2 and different pressures.

The UK´s University of Liverpool is also investigating ways to convert CO2 to organic molecules, using electricity as an energy source.

Green Car Congress article

The Hydrogen Journal

August 24, 2009
Turkey starts to provide electro energy to Georgia

Amount of import is about 1,118 square hours a day.

Georgia started to import electro energy from Turkey, InterpressNews quoted the statement by press service of ‘Electro energetic system commercial operator’.

Amount of import is about 1,118 square hours a day.

Electro energy is imported based on the agreement formed with Turkish side of ‘Energo-Pro Georgia’ and is mainly provided to Ajara and Guria, the report said.

‘Energo-Pro Georgia’ exchanges electro energy from Turkey. Ligt to Turkish side was provided by ‘Energo-Pro Georgia’ hydro powers.

Georgia imports electro energy from Russia apart from Turkey. Electo energy is also exchanged with Azerbaijan.

Source: www.worldbulletin.net, 24 September 2008

September 28, 2008