Iran to introduce rooftop solar for heavy consumers of electricity: Energy Ministry
Iran’s Ministry of Energy says capacity for using solar energy will increase in the country through a plan to encourage heavy consumers…
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Electricity swap with Turkey to resume: Iran energy minister
MNA – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has said that Iran and Turkey have reached agreement on electricity swap, adding that the…
99.7% of Iran’s villages have electricity: Minister
Tasnim – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian highlighted the progress in the process of supplying electricity to villages and towns across the…
Karoun Power Plant to supply sustainable electricity to PEDEC
Tehran Times – Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) plans to connect Yadavaran Oilfield to West Karun Power plant, a measure…
2nd phase of national smart metering program kicks off
Tehran Times – Iran’s Power Generation and Distribution Company (known as TAVANIR) and the Iranian Electrical Power Equipment Manufacturing and Provision Company…
Iranian state bodies warned over excessive power usage
Financial Tribune – State organizations, which do not reduce their electricity consumption by 10%, will face outages over the next two months,…
Iran, Tajikistan to develop ties in electricity field
IRNA – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said that Tajikistan produces about 15% of hydroelectric power of the world’s total capacity and…
Khuzestan power grid reeling from flood impact
Financial Tribune – More than 1,500 kilometers of overhead and underground transmission lines and 1,043 power pylons in southwestern Khuzestan Province (except…
Producing 51GW of electricity during summer on agenda
Tehran Times – Iranian power plants are set to produce at least 51 gigawatts (GW) of electricity during the peak hours of…
Official: Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant supplying national grid steadily
Tasnim – An Iranian official said the country’s nuclear power plant near the southern port city of Bushehr has supplied around 5.5…
Russia to export electricity to Iran as of 2019
IRNA — The first trial electricity supplies from Russia to Iran via the Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran energy corridor may start as early as 2019,…
Iran expects €4bn foreign finance for water, electricity projects
MNA – Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Tue. that Iran expects €4 billion foreign finance from international development banks to fund the…
Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan eye enhancing electricity coop.
MNA – Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan Republic discussed connecting electrical grids of the three countries and creating a North-South…
Energy Minister: Iran, Turkmenistan to resolve electricity transmission problem soon
FNA – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian in a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Charimirat Purchekov in Ashgabat on Saturday agreed to…
Iran benefiting from 400 mw wind, solar electricity generation
IRNA – Deputy Minister of Energy for electricity and energy affairs Homayoun Haeri said on Tuesday that currently the total capacity of…
Iran exporting 10bn kWh of electricity annually: Energy official
IRNA – Iran exports 10 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each year to neighboring states, said the deputy energy minister for…
Bushehr power plant generates 25 billion kw/h electricity
IRNA – Head of Bushehr Atomic Power Plant Exploitation Company Hossein Ghaffari said on Saturday that since the power plant commissioned it…
‘No shortage at home as Iran supplied Iraq with power’
Press TV – Iran says it has been producing enough electricity throughout summer to be able to satisfy a significant portion of…
Tehran, Rome to launch utility coop.
MNA – An official at Ministry of Energy reported on formation of a joint working group between Iran and Italy to expand…
Iran’s power generation capacity tops 77,000 MW
Tasnim – Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian announced that the country’s nominal capacity to produce electricity has surpassed 77,000 megawatts (MW).…
Iranian gov’t outlines clean energy initiatives
Financial Tribune – The government has developed several renewable power projects as well as 12 initiatives to produce electricity from fuel cells…
Iran to purchase electricity from Azerbaijan
Azer News – In case Iran needs additional power in summer months, Azerbaijan will meet a part of this demand in accordance…
Iran reportedly resumes electricity export to Iraq
Iran has resumed electricity export to Iraq after it halted supply in the beginning of the year, according to a Friday report…
Electricity returns to Iran’s Khuzestan after days of recurrent cuts
Press TV- Iran’s National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO) says electricity supply has been restored throughout most of the southwestern province of Khuzestan.…
Increase in Iran’s electricity export to Pakistan
Financial Tribune- A230/63-kilovolt power substation went on stream in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan last week in the framework of plans to…
Iran to resume electricity exports to Iraq within weeks
MNA– Head of Tavanir Arash Kordi said an Iranian delegation has travelled to Iraq in order to extend the electricity sale contract.…
Iran cuts electricity supplies to Iraq
IFP- Arash Kordi, the managing director of Iran’s electricity company Tavanir, told ILNA that Iran has cut its electricity supplies to the…
Iran aiming for a renewable-supplied future
Tehran Times- Supplying five percent of the country’s electricity need from renewable energies is a priority for Iran’s energy industry, IRNA quoted…
Iran eyes Indonesia’s 35,000MW project
TEMPO.CO– Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution said that Iran has expressed its interest to invest in the 35,000 Megawatts electricity…
Iran electricity market can absorb $800 m: General Electric
IRNA– Iran’s electricity industry is potentially capable of absorbing 700 – 800 million dollars of investments, says the American giant company General…
Iran denies it made power plant deal with MECI for 370 megawatts
Iran’s top renewable-energy authority denied that it’s signed any agreement covering electricity generation projects with a Swiss developer that has said it…
Iran, Armenia to boost electricity exchange: Minister
Tehran, July 27, IRNA – In a meeting with Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Levon Yolyan, Iranian Energy Minister Hamid…
‘Power infrastructure for export to Azerbaijan completed’
Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian has announced the completion of a power infrastructure project that will take Iran’s electricity to neighboring Azerbaijan.…
Tehran gearing for peak electricity demand
Official bodies in Tehran Province are taking steps to ensure the country’s heartland will not face a shortage of power supply in…
Iran, Russia in talks over electricity exchange
A new report says Iran and Russia are in final talks over electricity exchange during high seasons. Payam Baqeri, head of Export…
Electricity generation in Iran to witness 1,000 MW boost by Mar. 2017
TEHRAN- “Iran plans to add 1,000 megawatts (MW) to the generation capacity of its power plants by the current Iranian calendar yearend…
Israeli company reduces electricity supply to Palestine city
An Israeli power company has reduced its electricity supply to the occupied Palestinian city of Jericho over a debt dispute. Hisham Omari,…
Pakistan to buy more electricity from Iran
Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian has expressed Tehran’s readiness to increase electricity exports to Pakistan by 40%. Islamabad seeks more electricity from Iran…
Russia seeking to link power grid to Iran’s: Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak, who is in Iran on an official visit, said the two countries are in…
Iran needs nine atomic power plants in next decade
Tehran, March 9, IRNA – Spokesman of Iran Atomic Energy Organization Behrouz Kamalvandi said the country is in need of nine atomic…