Baku, Azerbaijan, May 15
By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:
Thermal Power Plants Holding Company of Iran and Iranian industrial group of MAPNA have agreed to build a combined-cycle power plant with a capacity of 5,000 megawatts (MW) in the country.
The head of Thermal Power Plants Holding Company of Iran, Mohsen Tarztalab, pointed to the capabilities of MAPNA and expressed hope that the industrial group will launch the project soon, ISNA news agency reported.
In a separate report on the same day IRNA news agency quoted Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian as saying 47,000 to 50,000 MW of electricity should be added to the country's electricity generation capacity within the next 10 years.
Earlier on May 14, Tarztalab announced that a consortium of companies from Belgium and Turkey have agreed to work together to build five combined-cycle power plants with the production capacity of 5,000 megawatts (MW) in Iran.
Iran generated 25.879 billion kilowatts-hour (kWh) of electricity in 41 days of current Iranian calendar year (started March 20), of which 223 million kWh was exported.
Iran's electricity exports decreased by 71 percent during this period year-to-year, while electricity imports increased by 24 percent to 610 million kWh.
Iran's power generation capacity stood at 74,277 megawatts (MW), about 182 MW more than last fiscal year.