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Iran, Afghanistan ink MoU on electricity cooperation

reporter 1222 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:30:07 +0000

In the memorandum of understanding, the two sides emphasized the expansion of bilateral cooperation in the fields of “repairing the worn out power transmission equipment”, “construction of armor lines”, “synchronization of two countries’ grids” and other issues related to the electricity industry.

The MoU was signed on Sunday in Kabul by the electricity and energy deputy of the Iranian energy minister Homayoun Haeri and the Director General of Tavanir Organization Mohammad Hassan Motavalizadeh on the Iranian side and Amanallah Ghaleb, the Director General of Afghanistan Electricity Company on the Afghan side.

The deputy Iranian energy minister arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday at the head of an energy delegation on a two-day visit. The Iranian delegation’s visit comes after the visit of Iranian energy minister and the head of the joint Iran-Afghanistan economic commission to Kabul recently.

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Hydroelectric power plant in NW Iran joins national grid

reporter 1222 — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:30:26 +0000

Sardasht Hydroelectric Power Plant is designed in three units with a total capacity of 150 MW and will go in full swing by late summer.

Once fully operational, it is expected to generate 421 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

Some 60% of the plant’s equipment has been supplied by domestic producers and the rest has been imported from China.

The launch of Sardasht power plant will be in line with efforts to boost electricity generation from non-fossil fuel sources, such as hydropower, and reduce harmful emissions. Sardasht dam has a capacity of 380 million cubic meters of water.

Hydropower constitutes almost 15%, or about 12,000 MW of Iran’s total installed power capacity of 81,000 MW.

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10MW solar farm comes on stream in Kerman

reporter 1222 — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:01:39 +0000

The plant, established on a 20-hectares area at a total cost of $4.6 million by the private sector, has been designed and built by Iranian experts.

According to Energy Ministry, the new solar farm will help reduce greenhouse gases by up to 10,000 tons annually and save the consumption of 4 million cubic meters of natural gas and over 3,000 cubic meters of water.

Currently, nine solar plants with a total capacity of 59 MW are operational in the central Iranian province, which has a dry climate and has sufficient solar radiation.

Besides, 926 rooftop-mounted systems are already functioning in the province, with a total capacity of 8,228 kilowatts.

With more than 300 sunny days in a year, Iran has huge potentials to harness renewable energies, including geothermal, solar and wind power.

Currently, renewables account for only 6% of the total nominal power capacity (82,000 MW) in the country. So far, 43,450 people are involved in the construction, development and maintenance of solar, wind, hydroelectric, waste-to-energy and biomass power plants.

Over to 3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity has so far been generated from alternative energy sources over the past ten years reducing water and fossil fuel consumption.

Officials say Iran needs to expand power generating capacity by 5,000 MW annually, or 20,000 MW till 2022 to meet rising demand at home and expand its footprint in the regional energy market.

The Energy Ministry has devised plans to increase the generating capacity of renewables, by 5,000 MW in the same period.

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Iran’s renewable power capacity growing

reporter 1222 — Wed, 29 May 2019 05:01:12 +0000

Several small- and large-scale renewable farms are under construction, which will add some 416 MW of the clean power to the country’s total output in the current year.

Currently, over 100 large-scale farms ranging from 2MW to 12MW and over 2,000 small-scale and rooftop renewable power plants are operating across Iran, the number of which has noticeably been growing as Iranian households and small industries have embraced the new technology with open arms and investors also seem eager for more contribution in this area.

According to the Energy Ministry, Iran has also the know-how and capacity to manufacture most of the equipment required for generating wind power.

With more than 300 sunny days in a year, Iran has huge potentials to harness renewable energies, including geothermal, solar and wind power.

Close to 3.11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity has so far been generated from alternative energy sources over the past ten years reducing water and fossil fuel consumption.

Officials say Iran needs to expand power generating capacity by 5,000 MW annually, or 20,000 MW till 2022 to meet rising demand at home and expand its footprint in the regional energy market.

The Energy Ministry has devised plans to increase the generating capacity of renewables, by 5,000 MW in the same period.

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Big thermal power plant planned in Tehran province

reporter 1222 — Sat, 18 May 2019 10:04:26 +0000

A private sector initiative, the plant is one of the largest of its kind in Tehran province, which will be established in a 70-hectare area in Pishva Industrial Town.

The construction operation will commence soon and is expected to be completed in three years. The project is envisaged to create over 500 jobs during the construction and 180 jobs when the plant goes on stream.

A total of 123 thermal power plants are operational in the country. Thermal units, which either use steam, gas-powered or combined-cycle turbines, account for 65,000 MW of Iran’s total electricity production which stands at 82,000 MW.

Last year 8,000 MW was added to the national network. Plans call for increasing the output to 85,000 MW by next March.

The move to expand the power infrastructure comes to help meet the consumption demands in the sizzling season of summer, which according to reports, rise between 5% and 8% per annum.

Iran’s electricity industry is 14th in the world in terms of output and 19th in consumption.

Electricity consumption reached a peak of 58,000 megawatts last summer, some 2,600 MW more than that of a year before.

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Iran to build 1,000 MW solar farm in Markazi

reporter 1222 — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 08:30:43 +0000

Iran is set to build its largest-ever solar farm with a capacity as much as 1,000 megawatts in Markazi province, central Iran, a senior official said.

Saeed Farrokhi, Markazi province’s deputy governor for economic affairs, said the photovoltaic power plant will be constructed over a 2,000-hectares area near the city of Saveh, turning it into the largest producer of renewables in the country.

According to him, “equipment and panels required for harnessing 100 MW of electricity have so far been imported,” and the project will commence in near future.

The project has been funded by a UK-based Iranian investor, Farrokhi added, providing no further details.

Renewable ventures are gaining popularity in the country; with more than 300 sunny days throughout the year, Iran has huge potential to expand solar energy infrastructure and attract foreign investments.

The country meets more than 80% of its electricity demand from thermal power plants that run on fossil fuels. Of the total 80,000 MW production capacity, only a meager amount of 670 MW goes to renewables.

Figures on Iran’s power sector show that 42% of the country’s renewable energies come from solar power, 41% from wind farms, 13% small from hydroelectric plants, 2% from heat recovery and 2% is constituted by biomass.

According to Energy Ministry, some 445 megawatts of renewable power plants are currently under construction, in line with the government’s plans to launch 5,000 MW of new renewable capacity, including solar and wind, by 2022.

Iran has also pledged to slow climate change by promoting cleaner energies. In December 2015, 195 nations, including Iran, signed an agreement at the Paris Climate Conference to move away from fossil fuels with a goal of limiting a rise in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Iran promised at the Paris Climate Conference to curtail greenhouse gas emissions by increasing power production from renewable sources to 7,500 MW by the end of next decade.

According to Energy Ministry, 2.673 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy were produced form June 2009 to the end of 2018, leading to the reduction of about 1.844 million greenhouse gases emissions.

Moreover, this amount of alternative energy production has reduced 759 million cubic meters of fossil fuel consumption in the country, which is one of the main sources of air pollution in Iran. The volume has also saved 588 million liters of water consumption in recent years, with the share of December alone being about 14 million liters.

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