Turkmenistan to supply 600 mln kwh of electricity to Turkey

Turkey also hopes to import natural gas from Turkmenistan, he said.

Under an agreement signed in December of last year Turkmenistan agreed to supply 300 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to Turkey each year. Turkmenistan exports electricity to Iran and Turkey using the power line from Balkanabat in Turkmenistan through Gonbad and Khoi in Iran to Baskale in Turkey. The Turkmen-Iranian portion of the power line was completed in 1999 and the Iranian-Turkish section was completed in December 2003.

According to the national statistics institute, Turkmen plants produced 10.798 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year, up 2% from 2002.