Iranian Energy Ministry plans to launch several new power plants within the next two months to catch up with an increasing demand for electricity that could create a shortage of 10 gigawatts (GW) over the peak summer days. A senior official from Irans Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH) said on Tuesday that a new 307-megawatt power plant ...

Financial Tribune - The average efficiency of thermal power plants has reached 38.1% compared to the global average that is 37%, head of Irans Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said. Conversion of single-cycle power plants (gas-powered) into combined cycles can help raise the efficiency to 40%, Mohsen Tarztalab was quoted as saying by IRNA. Thermal ...

MNA The Islamic Republic of Iran stands at the world's 9th rank in thermal power plants capacity with 65-gigawatt production. According to the Ministry of Energy, thermal power plants account for 80.8 percent share of total power plants in the country. The total production capacity of power plants in the world stands at 6,628 gigawatts and thermal ...

Financial Tribune - The first gas unit of Dalahu Combined Cycle Power Plant in Eslamabad-e-Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, with a capacity of 310 megawatts came online on Monday. According to the Energy Ministry news portal Paven, the plant will have another gas unit of 310 MW and a 290 MW steam unit, which together will boost nominal electricity ...

IRNA - Iran ranked 9th in the world in terms of installed capacity of the thermal power plant with 65 GW The Director General of the Thermal Power Company Mohsen Tarztalab, at the meeting of the power plants managers, added, 'There are 123 units of thermal power plants in the country, including 42 government units, 60 private units and 21 units ...

MNA Ministry of Energy is planning to increase the countrys thermal power capacity up to 5,223MW by summer 2019 to make up for the shortage of about 8,000MW reliable power next year. There is going to be about 8,000MW shortage of reliable power during peak times in 2019, according to the latest assessments. The Ministry of Energy is planning ...

Sputnik News- Russia and Iran have begun the construction of a 1.4-gigawatt thermal power plant in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the site Monday. The opening ceremony was attended byRussian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. In mid-December 2016 Russian company Technopromexport and an Iranian ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 27 (MNA) Iran and Russia authorities have emphasized implementation of the Green Corridor customs and the need to finalize the contract for construction of four thermal power plants. Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanaei and the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov, at a meeting, discussed the latest ...

TEHRAN May 25(Shana)--All six units of Ramin thermal power plant in Ahvaz are operational now, managing director of Kkozestan Districts Electricity Company Mahmoud Janghorban said. He further said a number of units of the power plant were shut down last week either for overhaul or due to construction of a new gas pipeline for taking gas but all ...

TEHRAN Feb 10(Shana)--The private sector runs more than 50 percent of thermal power plants in Iran, Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian said. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a number of power projects in Kerman Province, Chitchian said that development of power industry is one of the main indicators of the countrys progress. On the one hand,...