Iran’s thermal power output hit record in year to March
Electricity production by Iran’s thermal power plants broke a new record in the calendar year to late March when the country faced rising energy demand.
Iran’s Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said on Tuesday that electricity production by its power plants had reached a total of 351 million megawatt hours (MWh) in the year to March 20.
The company, which is responsible for 94% of Iran’s total electricity supply, said that its combined-cycle power plants had increased their output by 2.2% to 202 MWh in the past calendar year.
It said production at gas-fired plants had increased by 4.4% to 67 MWh while steam plants had accounted for 82 MWh of the total output over the same period.
Iran has invested heavily in recent years to upgrade its traditional gas-fired power plants to turn them into combined-cycle systems where the steam is raised using the exhaust heat from combustion turbines.
However, authorities are now pushing to expand the renewables as rising demand for natural gas in the country’s industry and household sectors has strained thermal power plants in recent years.
CEO of Iran’s state electricity company Mostafa Rajabi said on Tuesday that thermal power plants account for 84% of the electricity generation capacity in Iran, adding that they rely on natural gas for 80% of their feedstock.
Rajabi said that Iran is the 16th largest electricity producer in the world considering its installed power generation capacity, adding that production capacity had increased 13 times since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to reach more than 94.5 gigawatts today.
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