Iran raises renewable power purchase prices by up to 60%
Iran has increased its prices for purchasing renewable power from small electricity generators by up to 60% as part of efforts to…
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Iran to open 45 dams by 2025 to tackle water shortage
Iran plans to launch 45 new dams until 2025 as authorities warn that water shortage could threaten tens of millions of people…
Iran Energy Ministry to open 200 projects within next six months
IRNA – Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian announced on Thursday that his Ministry will inaugurate196 projects worth 34,000 billion tomans by the…
Iran desalination capacity to rise by 300,000 cubic meters per day by 2021
Financial Tribune – In the past six years, 39 desalination units with a capacity of approximately 174,000 cubic meters per day (63.7…
Iran’s renewable power capacity growing
MNA – The capacity of Iran’s renewable power production has reached 724 megawatts and the number is expected to exceed 1,000 MW…
80 new power projects to be implemented in Tehran by late-June
Tehran Times – Iranian Energy Ministry is going to implement 80 new electricity projects worth five trillion rials (over $119 million) in…
Water levels in Iran dams rise 300%
Financial Tribune – According to data by the Energy Ministry, 319.3 millimeters of rain fell in seven months, 128% over and above…
Higher rainfall over six river basins in Iran
Financial Tribune – Precipitation in the major river basins during the first 125 days of the current water year (started Sept. 23,…
Int’l Oil, Energy Exhibition opens in Kish
IRNA – The 15th International Oil and Energy Exhibition opened in Kish Island late on Monday to introduce the opportunities and investment…
Firefighters reach fire center in Iran Energy Ministry building
IRNA – The spokesman for Tehran Fire Department said on Wednesday that the firefighters have gained access to the center of the…
Iran’s power output hits 230k GW
MNA– Energy Minister of Iran announced that power plants across the country have produced 230 thousand gigawatt hours of electricity so far…
5th Int’l Conference on Energy Preservation kicks off in Tehran
Tehran, February 22, The Iran Project –Tehran hosts Fifth International Conference on New Approaches to Energy Preservation which kicked off on Monday with participation of envoys…
Iran’s electricity exchange hits 1.4bn MW
TEHRAN, Jul. 23 (MNA) – Witnessing a 4 percent increase in electricity generation in power plants, the country’s power exchange with its…
Peak days of electricity consumption ahead, energy ministry warns
TEHRAN June 16(Shana)–Iran has enough potential for installation of 30 thousand megawatts of wind and 10 thousand megawatts of solar energies, roughly…
Energy ministry urged to engage private sector
TEHRAN May 24(Shana)–First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri has called on Ministry of Energy to engage the private sector in its projects. Jahangiri said…
Iran: Investors can export 50% of power
Private investors can export 50% of the electricity which they generate at border plants, head of Iran’s national power grid has said. …
Italy’s environment protection experience can benefit Iran: Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian underlined that closer cooperation with Italy in the area of environmental protection can be…
Development plans of energy ministry getting more funds
TEHRAN Jan 13(Shana)–Next year budget has allocated 73.000 billion IR rials to development plans of Ministry of Energy, up by 33 percent…
Electricity exchange with neighbors reaches 147,6 megawatts
Tehran, Jan 9, IRNA – Energy Ministry announced Iran’s electricity exchange with neighboring countries reached 147,6 megawatts on January 8, 2015. According…
Iran’s hydroelectric generation up by 1.9 percent
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Energy Ministry announced that the country’s hydroelectric power plants have generated over 11.5 million MW since March showing…
Building new power plants on the agenda
TEHRAN Dec 14 (Shana)–Plans are under way in Iran’s power sector to increase electricity generation by building new power plants, deputy Minister…
Energy ministry: Iran to continue power supplies to Iraq
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Esmayeel Mahsouli announced that his ministry has extended an exports deal with Iraq to supply the…
Energy ministry lists priorities
TEHRAN Nov 25 (Shana)–Documentation of a project concerning turning Iran’s power gird into a smart one has progressed by more than 50…
Iran to boost power generation by 1,020 MW
TEHRAN Nov 11 (Shana)–Iran’s Energy Ministry is to increase electricity generation by 1,020 megawatts by the end of the calendar year in…
Chitchian outlines energy ministry’s plans
TEHRAN Nov 08 (Shana)–16 thousand megawatts of gas burning power plants capacity will convert into combined cycle in the next three years…
Photos: Iran, Armenia’s energy ministers meet in Tehran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian and his Armenian counterpart Yervand Zakharian met in Tehran, calling for boosting energy cooperation…
Iranˈs electricity swap with neighbors exceeds 1.6 GW in 1 day
Tehran, Sept 5, IRNA — Iranˈs electricity exchange with the neighboring states in one day amounted to 1,631 megawatts (MW), the Energy…
Energy ministry welcomes investment in renewable energies
TEHRAN August 27 (Shana)–Iran’s Energy Ministry welcomes investment in renewable energies, the head of the Renewable Energies Organization of Iran said. “Given…
Iran’s electricity production jumps nearly %7
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran has generated 121,950 gigawatts of electricity over the past five months, marking a 6.98 percent increase compared with…
Ministry of energy to continue privatization
Tehran, May 11, IRNA – The Deputy Minister of Energy said that the ministry will continue the privatization drive in the energy…