The visiting Sweden's Minister for Energy Ibrahim Baylan, in a Saturday meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hamid Chitchian in Tehran, expressed his country’s willingness to take part in various projects of Iran’s power sector.

According to the IRNA news agency, referring to the proper ground set for expansion of mutual cooperation in energy sector, following the removal of anti-Iranian financial embargo, the Swedish minister suggested that the Swedish company of ABB, a leading supplier of products and systems for power transmission, can make ties with Iran Grid Management Company under the approval of the Iranian energy ministry.
Baylan, who headed a delegation of representatives from Swedish private companies, referred to the 27,000-megawatt-capacity of Sweden and the country’s high amount of experience in the electricity sector and said that Stockholm can enhance cooperation level with Iranians in various fields namely power generation, smart grids, energy storage, energy efficiency and other areas.
The Iranian minister, for his part, noted that Iran's electricity grid is to witness a great improvement and underlined that the government’s priority in power sector is implementation of joint projects which transfer information into the country.