BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 2. Electricity production by Iranian hydropower plants increased by 10 percent during 3 months of the current Iranian year (from March 20 through June 20, 2024) compared to the same period last year (from March 21 through June 21, 2023), the deputy executive director of the Water and Energy Resources Development Company operating under the Iranian Ministry of Energy Vaheed Eizadi said, Trend reports.
According to him, Iran's hydroelectric power plants have been firing on all cylinders, generating a whopping 2,400 gigawatt hours of electricity within a mere 3 months.
Eizadi stated that the country's hydropower plants are ready to generate 3,000 megawatts of electricity in the summer season in the event of the timely repair of hydropower plants. The reservoirs under the control of the company have sufficient water reserves, and there will be no shortage in the production of the country's hydropower plants.
To note, the production potential of Iran's electricity generation is 93,024 megawatts. The production potential of Iran's thermal power plants is 75,767 megawatts, the production potential of hydroelectric power plants is 12,144 megawatts; the production potential of retail power plants is 2,485 megawatts; the production potential of renewable energy plants is 1,141 megawatts; the production potential of Bushehr nuclear power plants is 1,020 megawatts; and the production potential of diesel units is 408 megawatts.
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