Iran’s Power Generation Capacity Tops 80,000 MW

Date: 21 December 2018 - 21:47

News ID: ۶۱۰۵۳

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iran’s nominal capacity to produce electricity has reached over 80,000 megawatts (MW) following the connection of a number of power plants to the country’s national grid over the past weeks.
With the coming into service of several new power plants, Iran’s overall nominal capacity to generate electricity has reached 80,053 MW.
The latest increase of the power generation capacity was marked by the inauguration of the gas unit of the Hormuz Combined-Cycle Power Plant in southern Iran on November 25 with a capacity of 160 MW.
Meanwhile, Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian and his Turkish counterpart Fatih Donmez in Ankara signed an agreement to form joint electricity market committee.
Ardakanian made the remarks after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the sidelines of the 5th Session of the High Council of Iran-Turkey Strategic Relations.

He said Turkey is to raise volume of electricity imports up to 1,050 megawatts by 2020 from the current 600 megawatts.

Ardakanian added that the two sides will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the near future to that effect.

The Iranian energy minister also pointed to his discussions in a separate meeting, on environmental issues and erection of a border wall with Turkey, with Turkish minister of Environment and Urbanization Murat Kurum.

A joint committee is to look into the project in the near future, Ardakanian added.

About 90 percent of power generation equipment, even complicated parts like turbines and generators, are currently manufactured inside the country.
Iran’s capabilities in the area of power generation have developed over the past four decades so much that the country has become the top producer of electricity in the region.