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More than 82.000 megawatts of electricity have been generated by Iranian power plants in the past five months since March 21 (the start of the local calendar year). which puts the country among the top 9 energy producers in the world.

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said that his country has exported 2.3 billion kilowatts of electricity to the neighboring countries since the start of the local calendar year on March 21.

The CEO of Iran Power Plant Repairs Co. Einollah Salehi said that Iran is going to renovate two turbines in Afghanistan in the shortest possible time.

Iran and Afghanistan signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday to develop bilateral cooperation in the field of electricity industry.

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.

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.

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

The use of small-scale photovoltaic power stations has also been on rise over the past years to feed power to remote villages across the country.

Iran has moved up 24 ranks in terms of generation of electricity in the past forty years.