Iran spent more than $135 million on critical repair work needed in power plants in the country in the three months to late June amid efforts to boost grid reliability and to prevent power cuts in household and manufacturing sectors over the warn summer months. A Monday report by the Fars news agency showed that the Iranian Energy Ministry had carried ...

The Islamic Republics proposal for constructing a power plant in Lebanon is still on the table, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said. In an interview with ILNA, Khatibzadeh said on Tuesday that internal developments in Lebanon are of great importance for the Islamic Republic and that Irans proposition for establishing power ...

Tasnim Iran is among the top five countries in the world in the construction of power plants, CEO of Iranian energy and infrastructure conglomerate MAPNA said. Abbas Aliabadi said on Sunday that Iran is ranked among the five best countries in the world in the construction of power plants. He noted that Iran is manufacturing a broad range of ...

Financial Tribune - Thermal power plants have a small share in air pollution as almost all use gas, and emissions from gas combustion are way below those from other fossil fuels like diesel and mazut, says head of Economic, Social and Environmental Studies Office at the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (Satba). According to a ...

Press TV - An official from Irans Ministry of Energy has said that the country would launch new power plants with more than 3,800 megawatts (MW) of capacity until next summer. Based on the devised plans, 3,864 MW of new power plants will be connected to the countrys national electricity grid before the peak of the next summer, said Mohsen Tarztalab ...

Financial Tribune - Fourteen renewable power stations with the capacity to generate 160 megawatts are ready to be connected to the national grid in seven provinces, head of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (Satba), affiliated to the Energy Ministry said Tuesday. These include 13 photovoltaic power plants and one wind farm ...

MNA Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that a number of 20 power plants, with the production capacity of 3,000 megawatts, will be inaugurated in 13 provinces of the country before the termination of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2019). He made the remarks on Thu. in the inaugural ceremony of a 7-MW powerplant ...

Financial Tribune A new gas unit in Tarasht Thermal Power Plant west of Tehran came on line Monday, managing director of Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said. The unit, which cost $11 million, adds 25 megawatts to the plant capacity, the Energy Ministry news portal Paven quoted Mohsen Tarztalab as saying. Prior to the new unit, the ...

MNA A number of 20 new power plants, with the production capacity of 3146 megawatts, have been constructed since the 12th government dubbed. The latest report of Iran Thermal Power Generation Company showed that 49 thermal power plants, with the production capacity of 5,845 megawatts, were launched in 11th government. With the construction ...

Press TV - Iran next week will add 1,300 megawatts of new power capacity to its national grid which is under strain from runaway demand driven up by sizzling summer temperatures. Several power plants will come on line, including in Heris in the northwest, Golgohar in Kerman, Shirvan in the northeast, Parand and Tarasht in Tehran and West Karun in ...

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 The construction operation of a small thermal power plant with a capacity of 25 megawatts in Aqqala, northern Golestan province, started on Sunday. According to Ali Akbar Nasiri, the head of Golestan Power Distribution Company, the project is envisaged to go on stream with an estimated cost of 12 million euros in cooperation with a foreign ...

IRNA Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian says Iranian power plants' generation capacity has risen 11-fold since the triumph of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ardakanian made the remarks while addressing the inauguration ceremony of development projects in southern province of Kerman. He said that despite such a growth in technology, 15 out of 100 ...

MNA Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian said that a 540-megawatt power plant will be constructed in Sistan and Baluchestan province later o August 6. Speaking in a meeting held in the presence of governor general and managers of water and power resources in Sistan and Baluchestan province, he said, this province enjoys high capacities ...

Press TV- An Iranian official says negotiations with Turkish energy company Unit International to build two natural gas combined cycle power plants in Iran with $1.2 billion of investment are in the final stage. Negotiations have dragged on since June 2016 when Unit International reached a deal to build seven natural gas power plants in Iran before ...

SHANA -- National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) is currently supplying a daily amount of 285 million cubic meters of natural gas to the country's power plants to meet the growing demand for electricity in summer. According to NIGC, Mehdi Jamshididana, director of dispatching at NIGC, said the amount had been supplied to power plants since the beginning ...

Tasnim An Iranian official unveiled plans for an increase in the efficiency of the countrys power plants under a grand development initiative, saying the Energy Ministry has entered business negotiations with domestic and international investors to that end. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Deputy Energy Minister for Power and Energy ...

SHANA - Construction of a combined cycle power plant in the southern city of Asalouyeh has so far made 63% progress. An official with the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), Mohammad Mehdi Tavasolipoor, said the project has made over 30% progress over the course of the past 6 months ever since it was labeled as a prioritized project ...

MNA South Korea and Turkey have joined hands to construct Iran's largest privately developed power plants within a multi-billion-dollar project. As quoted by Yonhap News Agency, SK Engineering & Construction (SK E&C) has teamed up with Turkey's energy giant UNIT International SA to build and operate new power plants in Iran. Under ...

IFP- Five power plants of Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran went out of service on Saturday morning due to such climatic conditions as haze and extremely high humidity, leading to a power outage in major areas in the province. I thank people, and apologize to them for problems they are dealing with, said Hamid Chitchian, the Iranian Energy ...