According to Mahmoud Sadeqi, the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPHC)’s executive director for private power plant projects, the mentioned power plant has two gas units and a steam unit and will have a total capacity of 484 MW when completed.

He pointed out that the second gas unit of the power plant will also go operational in the near future, adding: “The commissioning of this power plant is very important for supplying electricity to the southeastern and southern provinces of Kerman, Hormozgan, and Sistan-Baluchestan and it will play an important role in compensating the electricity shortage in these areas.”

Over the past decade, constant temperature rising and the significant decrease in rainfalls across Iran have put the country in a hard situation regarding electricity supply during peak consumption periods.

In this regard, the Energy Ministry has been following new programs to meet the country’s power demand during peak periods and to prevent outages.

Constructing new units in the country’s power plants and also building new power plants for major industries are among the mentioned programs that are being pursued seriously by the ministry in collaboration with other related government entities.

Back in March, Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian said that 1,130 MW will be added to the country’s power generation capacity in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21).

“Increasing the electricity generation capacity, we hope that we will pass the summer with the least difficulty”, the minister added.

The Islamic Republic’s total power generation capacity currently stands at about 85,500 gigawatts most of which is supplied by thermal power plants.

Currently, combined cycle power plants account for the biggest share of the country’s total power generation capacity followed by gas power plants.

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The figure stood at 8,198 GWh in the same period last year, according to the latest report by the Information Technology and Statistics Office of the Iranian Energy Ministry.

The report said Iran’s hydroelectric power plants generated 1,157 GWh of electricity during October 23-November 21, 2019, adding that their power generation amounted to 1,022 GWh in the next month (which ended November), indicating an 11.7 percent decrease, IRNA reported.

At present, 55 hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 12,169 megawatts (MW) and average annual energy generation of 27,696 GWh are operating across Iran, of which 16 are located in the Caspian Sea’s drainage basin (northern Iran), 25 in the drainage basin of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, one in that of Orumieh Lake (northwestern Iran), and 13 in the drainage basin of Iran’s central plateau.

In addition, 17 hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 3,517 MW and an average annual energy generation of 7,460 GWh are currently under construction in the drainage basins of the Caspian Sea (four projects), the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman (11) and Orumieh Lake (two).

Moreover, preliminary studies are being conducted for implementation of a number of projects to build 217 hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 14,686 MW and an average annual energy generation of 34,129 GWh, in the drainage basins of the Caspian Sea (79 projects), the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman (111), and Orumieh Lake (18), Iran’s central plateau (eight), and Sarakhs in northeastern Iran (one).

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