Annual Report 2011-2012

Annual Research Report 2011-2012
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Project Title:
Providing Scenarios for Iran Electricity and Gas Exchange
with Neighbor Countries
Department: Power System Study
Project Manager: H. Raoufi
Employer: Power Generation Research Center Project Code: CSYOP01
(Operation Group)
Project Staff: H. Khatibzadeh, S. Salimi, H. Berahmandpour
Project Summary:
In Recent Decades, establishing inter-connected power systems between neighbor
countries or region countries are of great interest. Some reasons are relative advantage
in producing electricity in some countries, decreasing the peak load and improving the
load curve, utilizing near countries transmission capacity for power transfer, increasing
reliability utilizing urgent power exchange and near grid's reserve capacity, etc.
Considering Iran power system broadness and possibility of connection to a wide
variety of countries in this region, electricity exchange or transfer trough Iran simply
can be done. Furthermore, in recent years, because of existing reserves in some
countries and increasing need in other countries, natural gas exchange also has been
interested. Current energy transmission paths con not meet new demands. Thus,
different countries seek ways for receiving energy sources, especially natural gas which
is clean and cheap. Iran, which has unique strategic position, vast natural gas reserves
and desirable transmission systems, can provide long term gas export in a reliable and
economic manner. Also, Iran can transfer natural gas from one country to another.
Now, the Tavanir company has been defined a national project naming "Preparing
generation expansion strategy in a 30 years period considering all types of energy
carriers" which is performed by Niroo Research Institute (by Power Generation
Research Center). For preparing this 30 years strategy, the situation of Iran electricity
and gas exchange shall be specified. For this purpose, a project naming "providing
scenarios for Iran electricity and gas exchange with neighbor countries" is defined. The
project employer is Power Generation Research Center (Operation Group). The goal of
this project is to prepare and present different scenarios for Iran future electricity and
gas exchange with neighbor countries.
This project has been done in two stages as follows:
Stage 1: Analyzing electricity and gas exchange with neighbor countries
In this stage, at first, statistics and information regarding electricity and gas exchange
(export and import) between region countries, schemes for establishing or developing
inter-area exchange in future, and Iran electricity and gas exchange with neighbor
countries in recent years were collected. Then, existing reports and information about