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Minister: 118 MW Added to Iran Power Plant Capacity

reporter 1222 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:23:06 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s electricity generation capacity has grown by 118 megawatts (MW) following the implementation of a project to upgrade five power plants and remove their limitations, said the energy minister.

In an address to a ceremony in Tehran on Wednesday, Reza Ardakanian said the Energy Ministry has managed to expand the country’s power generation capacity with an investment equal to eight percent of the money needed for the construction of a new plant, IRNA reported.

This means that, he added, with an investment relatively smaller than what is needed for building a power plant it has become possible to make greater use of the available capitals and capacities.

The minister described the success as a great achievement for the domestic power industry.

He noted that the Energy Ministry is responsible for sustainable water and electricity supply to the people, adding that to this end, it is required to construct electricity networks as well as thermal and hydroelectric power plants.

Over the past few years, greater attention was paid to the capacities of the domestic water and electricity industries due to the imposition of US sanctions on Iran, which has led to more effective efforts for making optimum use of the available capacities and improvements in production techniques, Ardakanian said.

He added that improving the techniques has helped increase the country’s power plant capacity.

The minister noted that there had been no electricity cut-off in the country during the summer, adding that the electricity supply since June 21 has also witnessed a year-on-year increase.

He said Iran’s electricity exports have also seen a boost since the beginning of the current Iranian year (starting March 20).

Earlier, Ardakanian said the country’s electricity network will soon be linked to those of Russia and Azerbaijan in a couple of months once the synchronization studies are completed.

He added that the Iranian electricity grid could be synchronized with other grids, either through Azerbaijan, or Armenia and Georgia.

“Iran welcomes either of the two routes which gets ready first,” the minister said, adding that the three countries have agreed on a single company to implement the project.

He noted that the company has already started its work on the project.

Ardakanian described as necessary a project whose implementation is highly demanded by the three countries.

On Monday, a member of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), said electricity exports to neighboring countries, including Pakistan, should be a priority for the Energy Ministry.

Speaking on the sidelines of a visit by an ICCIMA delegation to the Iranian Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC) in the northern province of Alborz, Hamidreza Salehi added that electricity consumption in our country is high, estimated to be 2.5 times the global average, IRNA reported.

Salehi, who serves as the head of the ICCIMA’s Energy Commission, noted that currently, 250 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity are consumed annually in Iran by households, administrative offices and the commercial-industrial sector.

He said, “Our country with an annual electricity generation of 83,000 megawatts, is ranked 14th in the world in terms of power production.”

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Tehran, Baku Discuss Cooperation in Electricity

reporter 1222 — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:24:25 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Joint Technical Commission of Tehran and Baku reviewed the two countries’ cooperation in the field of electricity in a virtual meeting.

The two sides discussed the construction of ‘Khoda-Afarin’ and ‘Qiz-Qala’si dams by the two countries on Aras River, reported Fars News Agency.

The budget for the dams and equipment was also reviewed.

The agreement on the construction of Khoda-Afarin and Qiz-Qala’si dams and power plants was signed by Azerbaijan and Iran in Tehran in 2016 and approved by the two countries’ parliaments.

In late December, 2019, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said his country has already established transmission lines with Russia and Iran, adding that Baku is eyeing for further trilateral energy cooperation in an upcoming meeting of the energy ministers of the three countries.

In an interview with Russia-24 TV Network on December 30, 2019, Aliyev said that the Azerbaijan-Russia-Iran electricity corridor has vast potentials for energy cooperation among the three neighbors.

“Azerbaijan and Russia cooperate in emergency electric power supply… and we constructed new electricity transmission lines with Iran,” he noted, adding, “Therefore, the electricity power energy is active among Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia.”

Aliyev added that the countries’ energy ministers will discuss collaboration in the field, highlighting that Baku is currently exporting electricity to Georgia, Turkey and the European states.

Azerbaijan has also established a new line for transferring electricity with Iran. Therefore, the electricity corridor is currently in operation among Iran, Russia and Turkey, he said.

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Biogas Plant to Supply Power for Iran

reporter 1222 — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:40:42 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Two departments of the Iranian Energy Ministry signed a contract for the guaranteed purchase of power from the country’s largest biogas plant located in the capital Tehran.

A report by IRNA said the 15-year contract was signed between Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization, known by the local acronym SATBA, according to Press TV.

Under the contract, during the 15-year period ending 2034, SATBA guarantees to buy 500 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity from the biogas plant located at Tehran’s southern wastewater treatment facility at a minimum price of 10,500 Iranian rials ($0.48) per each kilowatt.

The biogas plant, one of the largest of its kind in the world, is nominally capable of producing 44 gigawatts (GW) of electricity and 140 terajoules (TJ) of heat energy per year, according to an Energy Ministry official.

Abbasali Mesrzadeh said the plant is capable of supplying the electricity need of a city with a population of 60,000, adding that a thermal power plant would normally need around 100,000 barrels of oil, or 400,000 cubic meters of gas, per year to generate the same amount of power.

Iran relies on natural gas and petroleum-based fuels for much of the energy it needs to run its massive thermal power plants.

Recently, however, the government has increased its reliance on natural gas for the same purpose to be able to raise the country’s exports of petroleum-based fuels.

Iran has implemented various schemes to increase the renewable resources’ share in the country’s total power generation.

Iran’s renewable power plants use wind, solar and biomass energies as well as other forms for power generation.

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Iran-Syria Power Grids to Be Connected via Iraq

reporter 1222 — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:32:23 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said his ministry plans to connect the Iran’s power grids to Syria through Iraq as Tehran and Damascus signed a preliminary agreement in this regard.

Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Iranian Energy Ministry and the Syrian Electricity Ministry in Tehran on Saturday, Ardakanian pointed to the synchronization of the power grids of Iran and Iraq on Friday and said, “We intend to use the existing infrastructure to connect the Iran-Syria power grids via Iraq.”

The Iranian minister added that in the near future, the electricity transmission between Iran and Syria would become possible via Iraq.

“We plan to create the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of this program within the next three years so that we witness the synchronization of the power grids of Iran and Syria,” he added.

The power grids of Iran and Iraq were synchronized in a ceremony held on Friday attended by Ardakanian and the Iraqi deputy minister of electricity.

Earlier this year, the two countries had reached an agreement to connect their power grids by the end of 2019.

Speaking to Tasnim, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Ha’eri said with the synchronization of the national grids, the two countries would witness the increase of electricity exchanges.

According to Ardakanian, Iran’s exports of electricity to neighboring states, particularly to Iraq, reached a record high last year.

Ardakanian and his Iraqi counterpart Luay al-Khatteeb signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and a contract in February to boost cooperation between the two countries in the electricity industry.

On October 16, a US State Department spokesman said Washington has once again exempted Iraq from its sanctions against Iran, allowing the Arab country to continue gas and electricity imports from the Islamic Republic for another four-month period.

Power cuts in Iraq have often prompted protests against the authorities. Iran supplies enough gas to power 2,500 megawatts (MW), as well as providing Iraq with 1,200 MW in direct power supplies, according to media reports.

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