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Iran to increase power production by March 2017

Business Materials 29 November 2015 14:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 29

By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:

He pointed out that the country is set to convert most of its thermal power plants into combined cycle power plants by March 2017 in order to increase the efficiency of power.

Domestic companies will carry out the task, Tarztalab said, ISNA news agency reported.

The efficiency of thermal power plants in Iran is about 37 percent, he added.

The Energy Ministry's statistics indicate huge, but not fundamental changes in the country's power sector.

The report said that Iran has increased the power generation capacity by 2.871 GW, including about 1.6-GW in gas power plants, 0.64-GW in combined cycle power plants, as well as a 0.52-GW in hydroelectric power plant.

This is while the actual power generation level has increased by only 1.98 GW.

The statistics shows that Iran increased gas supply to thermal power plants, which shares above 82.5 percent of the country's total power generation capacity from March 2014 to March 2015.

The country's total "power generation capacity" stood at 73.149 GW until March 20, 2015.

In regards to increasing the actual and nominal power generation capacity, it seems the efficiency of Iran's power plants hasn't become better during the couple of last years.

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