Electricity

A number of 20 power plants. with the production capacity of 3.000 megawatts. will be inaugurated in 13 provinces of the country before the termination of the current Iranian calendar year.

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian announced that a number of 20 power plants. with the generation capacity of 3.000 megawatts. will go online by the end of the current local calendar year on March 20.

Islamic Republic of Iran has currently electricity exchanges with some of neighboring countries including Armenia and Iraq.

Group CEO John Pettigrew has denied claims he was on holiday at the time of the incident and said the ‘UK is not Argentina’ after comparisons with the country. which experienced a massive blackout earlier this year.

A new project is exploring how distributed energy resources could be used to restore power in the highly unlikely event of a total or partial shutdown of the National Electricity Transmission System.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will inaugurate a gas-fired thermal power plant with a 310 megawatt capacity in Haris county of Northwestern province of East Azerbaijan.

Iran has high capacity and potential to export electricity up to twofold of the current capacity to neighboring Iraq.

Iranian thermal power plants have a 65-gigawatt production capacity which makes the country the 9th in the world in terms of electricity generation.

Nuclear power provided about 30% of Japan’s power prior to the earthquake.