Installed capacity of dispersed generation power plants touches 1,900MW

mahla — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:47:18 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Energy Ministry’s Spokesman for Electricity Industry Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi said currently nearly 1,900 megawatts (MW) capacity of dispersed generation power plants are installed across the country’s power network.

According to Rajabi Mashhadi the mentioned capacity is expected to reach 2,000 MW by the end of the current Iranian calendar month (June 21), IRNA reported.

The official noted that currently over 1,833 MW of dispersed generation power plants, which have been constructed over the past few years, inject their generated electricity into the national grid.

Rajabi Mashhadi stated that these power plants sell their electricity based on the guaranteed purchase rate for new power plants and the rate set by the Electricity Market Regulatory Board for older plants, noting that the regulatory rate is about four times higher than the wholesale market price ceiling.

The installed capacity of the mentioned power plants stood at 1,664 MW at the peak consumption period in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20), which has now increased to 1,833 MW, he stated.

Also, the electricity generated by these power plants has increased by almost 10 percent since the beginning of the current year compared to the same period last year, the official added.

Tehran Province Electricity Distribution Company with 369 MW and Sistan-Baluchestan Regional Electricity Company with 10 MW, have the highest and lowest share of distributed generation power plants, respectively, according to Rajabi Mashhadi.

Dispersed generation power plants are small, highly efficient plants that would be built along the existing grid, close to the end-user customer. It is similar in concept to the move from large central computers to desktop computers on a network.

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Iran: Electricity Generation Capacity Added

reporter 1222 — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 05:33:38 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has added 464 megawatts (MW) to its electricity generation capacity by upgrading the gas units of power plants, announced the director general of the Research and Construction Department of Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH).

According to Esmail Namazi, the generation capacity of the country’s thermal power plants has increased by 2,000 MW by implementing improvement and modernization projects during the current Iranian year (starting March 20), IRNA reported.

“These projects have been carried out with an investment of about $101.6 million while the construction of a new power plant, with 1,000 MW of capacity, requires about $357.142 million of investment,” he said.

Currently, a total of 478 thermal power plants are operating throughout Iran which includes both gas power plants and combined-cycle plants.

Over two-thirds of Iran’s thermal power plants are owned and operated by the country’s private sector and private owners are currently generating nearly 67 percent of Iran’s thermal power.

The total electricity generation capacity of Iran, currently stands at about 85,000 MW, over 90 percent of which is supplied by thermal power plants.

In September, Hamidreza Azimi, the deputy managing director for planning affairs in TPPH, announced that 1,239 MW had been added to the generation capacity of the country’s thermal power plants since the beginning of the current Iranian year.

According to data released by the Energy Ministry, from August 2013 to August 2019, a total of 69 thermal power plants were constructed across the country, to add 8,991 MW to the capacity of the country’s thermal electricity output.

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