BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 3. The volume of electricity production by Iran's thermal power plants (TPPs) grew by four percent during the first half of the current Iranian year (from March 21 through September 22, 2025) compared to the same period last year (from March 20 through September 21, 2024), the CEO of Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH) Abolfazl Asgari told local media, Trend reports.
According to him, in the reporting timeframe, the electricity production of the TPPs exceeded 211 billion kilowatt-hours.
Asgari said that currently, the electricity production potential of the TPPs is more than 78,000 megawatts.
Over the past year, the capacity of TPPs rose by 3,200 megawatts, which was achieved by synchronizing steam and gas units with a capacity of 1,770 megawatts, removing restrictions on the production of 14 existing steam units with a capacity of 750 megawatts, and boosting the electricity generation capacity of gas units by 670 megawatts.
The official added that since the end of June, repair work has begun at the TPPs, spending 400 trillion rials (about $687 million).
Currently, electricity is produced in 634 units of 147 TPPs in Iran. As many as 69 percent of these plants is operated by the private sector.
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