Electricity

Police in Iran have reportedly seized 45,000 bitcoin mining rigs for illegally using subsidized electricity from the state-owned power utility Tavanir, the local Tasmin News Agency reported this week. According to Mohammad Hassan Motavalizadeh, head of Tavanir, the efficient application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin miners had been consuming 95 megawatts …

China’s electricity system was already becoming stretched – even before unusually cold weather descended on most of the country in December and January. In common with other fast-developing economies in Asia, China’s reliability problem stems more from rapid growth in electricity consumption than abnormal weather, with generation struggling to keep …

Renewable energy, mostly solar and wind, are set to account for more than two-thirds of the new electricity generation capacity that the United States will install this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its latest inventory of electricity generators on Monday. A total of 39.7 gigawatts (GW) …

Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said on Tuesday that Iraq’s debt to the National Iranian Gas Company and the Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) have been paid by the Iraqi government except for two months. He said that Iran has two contracts regarding the exports of electricity and …

Turkey has reportedly begun to export electricity to Iraq. According to Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA, EPDK) started supplying Iraq on Monday at a rate of 150 MW, through the Silopi-Zakho transmission line. The deal is due to run until 1st November, 2021.

Worldwide coal generation will fall 5% in 2020 to 2012 levels, marking the largest annual decrease on record, the International Energy Agency estimated in a new report. Coal use will likely bounce back in 2021, but growth in renewables will remain the lead story in electricity generation, the agency said …

International Energy Agency’s latest electricity markets update confrms major drop in emissions in 2020, but warns that coal and gas-fired generation will bounce back next year Global renewable energy generation is expected to grow by seven per cent in 2020, further bolstering record shares of the power mix for clean …

Competition from record-low natural gas prices and reduced power demand in the lockdown in the spring sent coal consumption in the U.S. power sector down by 30 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Friday. …

Iran and Russia have renewed agreement on construction of Sirik power plant in southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, Iran’s Ministry of Energy said on Saturday. The project will become operational soon after approval of a loan from Russia, director of power plant projects in Iran Behnam Khaefinejad has said. As …

Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian held talks with Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Hanif Atmar on the permanent transmission of electricity to Afghanistan. In a videoconference on Saturday night, the two sides discussed preparation for holding a joint economic commission next month, planning and implementing joint economic programs, electricity …