BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 31. Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), located in Bushehr province in southern Iran, produced 7.3 billion kWh of electricity in the last Iranian year (from March 20, 2024, through March 20, 2025), said Mohammad Eslami, Iran’s Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Trend reports.
Speaking at an event held today (May 31) in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, Eslami noted that Bushehr NPP is currently the only operational nuclear power plant in Iran.
"Iran is taking steps to increase its nuclear power production capacity to 3,000 MW by 2029. Additionally, locations for the construction of two more nuclear power plants in the country’s south and north have been identified. The goal is to raise nuclear power production in Iran to 20,000 MW by 2041," he said.
Meanwhile, the first block of Iran's Bushehr NPP began operation in 2011. The operation of the block was handed over by the Russian nuclear company to an Iranian company in 2013. The maximum amount of electricity—1,000 megawatt-hours—has been produced at this unit since 2013. Over ten years, electricity production at Bushehr NPP amounted to more than 65 billion kilowatt-hours.
The construction of Bushehr NPP's second and third units started in 2017 on an area of 50 ha. If these units are commissioned, each unit will be able to produce 1,057 megawatts of electricity. The commissioning of these two units will save ten million barrels of crude oil or 1.6 bcm of gas per year and prevent the release of seven million tons of polluting gases into the environment.
