Tehran, YJC. Tehran and Baku have agreed to work in cooperation to construct wind farms and solar power stations as part of joint efforts to improve work on energy resources.
Iran’s Deputy Minister of Energy in International Affairs
Esmail Mahsouli said on Tuesday that Iran and Azerbaijan have made deal to work
on developing projects related to renewable energy resources.
Their joint efforts will include the construction of wind
farms as well as solar power stations inside their borders or, otherwise,
inside a 3rd country.
He also pointed out that Tehran and Baku are discussing the
issue of electricity power exchange as well as setting up an electricity transmission
line, which is also going to connect Iran’s national grid to that of Russia.
Tehran and Moscow will take the 1st preparatory step in
connecting their national grids through a transmission line that will link Iran
to Azerbaijan by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (which falls on March
20, 2015).
On September 9, 2014, an agreement was signed by Iranian and
Russian energy officials, which obliges the two sides to match power systems in
Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia, reports say.