Irans Ministry of Energy says capacity for using solar energy will increase in the country through a plan to encourage heavy consumers of electricity to take up rooftop panels. A ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the government would pay for the interest and other costs of the loans offered to households for setting up rooftop installations ...

MNA Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has said that Iran and Turkey have reached agreement on electricity swap, adding that the volume of electricity exports to neighboring Turkey will increase. Iranian and Turkish energy ministers discussed resumption of trading electricity between the two sides in their meeting in Ankara on Monday evening ...

Tasnim Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian highlighted the progress in the process of supplying electricity to villages and towns across the country and said the population of 99.7 percent of the villages have access to electricity. In remarks on Monday, Ardakanian said the process of supplying electricity to the countrys villages has been ...

Tehran Times - Irans Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) plans to connect Yadavaran Oilfield to West Karun Power plant, a measure that will ensure continuous and uninterrupted production of oil in this joint field, Shana reported on Saturday. The Yadavaran Oilfield development project is the first project which will be powered ...

Tehran Times Irans Power Generation and Distribution Company (known as TAVANIR) and the Iranian Electrical Power Equipment Manufacturing and Provision Company (SATKAB) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for installing five million smart electricity meters. As reported by the portal of Iranian Energy Ministry (known as Paven), with this ...

Financial Tribune - State organizations, which do not reduce their electricity consumption by 10%, will face outages over the next two months, the interior minister said Sunday. "Executive bodies that exceed limits defined by the Energy Ministry will face frequent power cuts from 1 p.m. onwards," Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli was also quoted as saying ...

IRNA Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said that Tajikistan produces about 15% of hydroelectric power of the world's total capacity and that Iran is ready to provide transit facilities for the Tajik electricity exports. Speaking in a meeting with Tajikistan Foreign Minister Sirodjidin Muhriddin, Ardakanian stressed the importance of development ...

Financial Tribune - More than 1,500 kilometers of overhead and underground transmission lines and 1,043 power pylons in southwestern Khuzestan Province (except in the provincial capital Ahvaz) were damaged in the recent flash floods, managing director of Khuzestan Regional Electric Company said. Total damage to the electricity network in the province ...

Tehran Times - Iranian power plants are set to produce at least 51 gigawatts (GW) of electricity during the peak hours of consumption in summer, IRNA reported on Sunday quoting deputy minister of energy for electricity affairs as saying. According to Homayoun Haeri, in this regard the oil ministry plans to focus on consumption management and increasing ...

Tasnim An Iranian official said the countrys nuclear power plant near the southern port city of Bushehr has supplied around 5.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity to the national grid over the past eight months. The Bushehr nuclear power plant generated a record amount of 7.4 billion kWh of electricity in the previous Iranian year (March ...

IRNA -- The first trial electricity supplies from Russia to Iran via the Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran energy corridor may start as early as 2019, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a statement following the results of the first meeting of the trilateral working group on linking the power grids of the three countries. 'Following the meeting, the parties ...

MNA Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Tue. that Iran expects 4 billion foreign finance from international development banks to fund the countrys water and electricity projects. Speaking at the 12th International Energy Conference currently underway in Tehran, the energy minister said Iran has so far begun or finished projects worth ...

MNA Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan Republic discussed connecting electrical grids of the three countries and creating a North-South electricity corridor. The trilateral meeting was attended by Azerbaijan Republics Deputy Oil Minister Natiq Abbasov, Iranian Deputy Minister of Energy Homayoun Haeri and Deputy Energy Minister of ...

FNA - Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian in a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Charimirat Purchekov in Ashgabat on Saturday agreed to resolve the problems facing the second line of power transmission between the two countries. During the meeting in the Turkmen capital today, Ardakanian and Purchekov agreed that the level of energy exchanges ...

IRNA Deputy Minister of Energy for electricity and energy affairs Homayoun Haeri said on Tuesday that currently the total capacity of wind and solar power plants in the country is 400 megawatts, which is slated to be increased next year to 1,000 megawatts. He said by launching new solar and wind power plants and attracting private sector investment,...

IRNA - Iran exports 10 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each year to neighboring states, said the deputy energy minister for electricity and energy affairs. Speaking to the Tehran-based English language newspaper Iran Daily on the sidelines of the 23rd Tehran Press Exhibition, Houshang Falahatian said Iran is also willing and has the capacity ...

IRNA Head of Bushehr Atomic Power Plant Exploitation Company Hossein Ghaffari said on Saturday that since the power plant commissioned it generated 25 billion kilowatts/hour electricity and transferred it to national grid. He said that by generating such amount of electricity the amount of 6.1 billion barrels crude oil worth 2 billion dollars in ...

Press TV - Iran says it has been producing enough electricity throughout summer to be able to satisfy a significant portion of Iraqs power needs without causing shortages at home. Hooshang Falahatian, deputy energy minister for electricity affairs, was quoted by domestic media as saying that Irans power consumption hit a record high in summer....

MNA An official at Ministry of Energy reported on formation of a joint working group between Iran and Italy to expand ties in water and electricity sectors. Hamidreza Tashayoei, Head of Export Promotion and Logistics at the Iranian Ministry of Energy, made the remarks at a meeting with Italys economy attach to Tehran Carmelo Ficarra in Tehran....

Tasnim Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian announced that the countrys nominal capacity to produce electricity has surpassed 77,000 megawatts (MW). Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Monday, Falahatian said over the past year, the countrys power generation capacity has increased by about 2,000 MW. With the coming into service ...