Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 1
By Fatih Karimov– Trend:
Iran's power plants generated over 201.715 TWh (terawatt-hours) of electricity since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 21) till Oct. 20, according to the latest weekly statistics, published by Iran's Energy Ministry.
The figure indicates a rise by 7 percent, compared to the same period of the preceding year.
Iran’s electricity export has also increased by 19 percent up to 5.492 TWh from the beginning of the current fiscal year to Oct. 20, according to the report.
Meanwhile, Iran imported 2.616 TWh of electricity during the period, registering a 3-percent fall compared to the same period of the preceding year.
Iran’s thermal power plants and Bushehr nuclear power plant produced 190.072 terawatt hours of electricity in total during the period, meanwhile hydroelectric power plants shared 11.643 TWh of the country's total electricity production.
The country increased gas and gas oil delivery to its power plants by 7.1 percent and 41 percent to 45.479 billion cubic meters and 1.457 billion liters, while fuel oil supply to this sector increased by 12.4 percent to 1.695 billion liters in the mentioned period.
The nominal electric generation capacity has increased by 1,018 megawatts (MW) to 77,446 MW in Iran since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year, according to the report.
Gas power plants (27,208 MW) share 35.13 percent of the generation capacity, meanwhile the share of combined cycle (19,790 MW) and steam power plants (15,829 MW) accounts for 25.55 and 20.44 percent, respectively.
Hydroelectric (11,811 MW) and Bushehr nuclear power plant’s (1020 MW) nominal electric generation capacity is equal to 15.25 and 1.32 percept of country’s electric generation capacity, meanwhile the share of renewables stands at only 0.42 percent or 322 MW.
Iran plans to increase its nominal electric generation capacity to 80,000 MW by summer 2018, and 100,000 by 2025, one thousand of which should be produced from solar energy.