TEHRAN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iran has signed preliminary agreements with Syria to repair the power grid in the Aleppo city and the provinces of Latakia and Dayr al-Zawr in the Arab state, State TV reported on Wednesday.
The contracts, worth "several hundred million euros," were signed during Syrian Electricity Minister Mohammad Zuhair Kharboutli's visit to Tehran on Tuesday.
The agreements include building a power plant in the coastal province of Latakia with a capacity of 540 megawatts and restoring the main control center for Syria's electricity grid in the capital Damascus, Press TV said.
Iranian companies will also rehabilitate a 90-megawatt power station in Dayr al-Zawr province, and another in the Homs province.
The contracts further involve the establishment of five gas turbines, each with a capacity of 125 megawatts in in Baniyas.
Iran has already assured Syria to expand its cooperation to construct water and sewerage facilities in the Arab country.
"We are glad that good news is coming out about the situation in Syria these days, and the terrorists are facing defeat and complete elimination," Sattar Mahmoudi, Iran's caretaker energy minister, said during the signing ceremony.
The capabilities of Iranian companies in production, distribution and transmission of power and power plant equipment are unique in the region and many Iranian products are able to compete with the world's leading brands, Mahmoudi said.
"The message of Iran's Ministry of Energy is to restore light to the houses of the Syrian people, while the terrorists and their supporters have had no message other than darkness and terror for the Syrian people in the past few years," he said.
Iranian firms are already involved in a series of electricity generation projects worth 660 million U.S. dollars in Syria, according to Iran's Energy Ministry.
In May 2013, Iran agreed to provide Syria with a 3.6 billion U.S. dollar credit line for imports of goods and commodities and implementing civilian projects.
