Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 12

21-Mar-2011

IRAN

Iran And China To Build 1.5GW Hydropower Plant And Dam

Iran and China have finalized a hydropower project construction agreement, Irans Water and Power Resources Development Company Director Mohammadreza Rezazadeh told IRIB television on 14 March. He estimated the cost of the project at $2bn, and said a construction agreement would be signed by Chinas Sinohydro Corporation and the Farab Iran Company. The Bakhtiari Dam project will...