IRAN EXPANDS COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA TO CREATE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES

The Ministry of Energy of Iran takes steps to expand cooperation with Armenia in electric power production via wind farms, stated member of the Committee of Directors of Sadid Seba Niru Iranian company Shahram Aminiyan, Iran.ru reported. In his words, Iran possesses sufficient resources to export technical knowledge to other countries. Sh. Aminiyan reported that at present talks between the two countries continue, simultaneously the Ministry of Energy actively engaged in that question. Several Iranian companies, closely cooperating with the Ministry of Energy, state they have the capacity to produce 40-meter vanes of wind turbines. It should be reminded that by 2006 Armenia intends to build the first wind farm of 2 MW with the technical and financial support of Iran, which has already allocated a grant of $2.5 million.