Financial Tribune - Electricity export from Iran s to neighboring countries shot up by 27.6% last year (March 2019-2020) compared to the year before, reaching more than 8 billion kilowatt hours � almost six times the power imported in the same year.

According to Iranian Electrical Power Equipment Manufacturing and Provision Company (SATKAB), last year power was exported to Armenia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, IRNA reported.

The total energy export was 8.029 billion kilowatt hours -- up 1.736 billion kWh compared to the previous year.