The Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday that TETAŞ had already conveyed Syria’s request to the Energy Market Regulation Board (EPDK).
The established electricity line between Turkey and Syria has a 500-megawatt-capacity, only half of which is currently utilized. In January, Lebanon also requested 250 megawatts of electricity from TETAŞ. Since 2002, Turkey has been selling electricity to Adjara (Georgia), Iraq, Nakhchivan and Greece as part of exchange agreements, and to Syria as part of export agreements. According to TETAŞ, Turkey sold 5.1 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity to Nakhcevan and got 573.2 million kWh of electricity from this autonomous republic between 1991 and end of November 2009.
Turkey has given 319.3 million kWh of electricity to Adjara and received 573.2 million kWh of electricity from the region.
Within the framework of an agreement signed in 2007, Turkey sold 88.7 million kWh of electricity to Greece.
Turkey started to send electricity to Syria in 2006. Since then, Turkey’s electricity sales to this country have amounted to 1.5 billion kWh. Karadeniz Toptan Elektrik Ticaret A.S., a private wholesale electricity company, has been exporting electricity to Iraq since Sept. 16, 2003.
