Baku, Azerbaijan, May 17
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Distributed generation power plants will inject 90 megawatts of electricity to Iran's electricity network, said Zaman Hosseini, the managing director of Tehran Regional Power Authority.
To deal with the shortage of power during the peak consumption hours, 90 megawatts of electricity generated by distributed generation power plants, will be supplied to the national electricity network, Iran's IRNA news agency quoted Hosseini as saying May 17.
Conventional power stations, such as coal-fired, gas and nuclear powered plants, as well as hydroelectric dams and large-scale solar power stations are centralized and often require electricity to be transmitted over long distances. By contrast, DG systems are decentralized, modular and more flexible technologies, and are located close to the load they serve, albeit having capacities of only 10 MW or less.
Last year, DG power plants injected 50MW of electricity to the national network, Hosseini said.
Iran's electricity generation capacity is currently 68,932 megawatts, of which 57,541 megawatts is generated by thermal power plants, 9,686 megawatts - by hydroelectric power plants, 1,020 megawatts - nuclear power plants, 466 megawatts - distributed generation power plants, and 219 megawatts is generated by renewable energy power plants.
Since last summer, 9 power stations with a total output of 1,045 megawatts came on stream, Majid Salehi, the managing director of Iran Power Development Company said May 3.
Two other power stations with a total capacity of 187 megawatts will also come on stream by this summer, he added.
...