Tehran, Iran, June 17
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Iran officially inaugurates two new power generation units in the southern provinces of Khuzeastan and Hormozgan.
The two units have the generation capacity of 324 megawatts, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on Jun. 17.
The sixth unit of Khorramshahr combined cycle power plant, located in the southern province of Khuzestan, has officially come on stream.
By inauguration of the unit, the facility's total electricity output capacity has reached 972 megawatts.
Iran daily exports some 200 megawatt hours of the facility's produced electricity to Iraq.
The first unit of Geno combined cycle power plant with the capacity to produce 162 megawatts has also come on stream. The facility is located in the Hormozgan province.
By inauguration of the mentioned units, Iran's total electricity generation capacity has surpassed 71,000 megawatts.
The country's electricity consumption peak is expected to reach 50,000 megawatt in summer.
The power generation capacity in Iran has grown by 7 percent annually during the past 10 years.
Tehran seeks to become a major regional exporter of electricity and has attractedmore than $1.1 billion in investments for the construction of three new powerplants.
Based on the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan, Iran should annually add 5,000 MW to its power generation capacity.
Iran plans to boost its electricity generation capacity to reach 73GW, by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (March 2016).
Iran plans to convert all the gas power plants to combined cycle plants.
Iran's Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian said on May 10 that by doing so the productivity of the plants will increase to 48 percent from the current figure of 32 percent, Iran's IRIB News Agency reported