BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 17. Production of electricity will increase to 3,100 megawatts with the commissioning of the second and third phases of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Bushehr province, located in the south of Iran, the head of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant Reza Banazadeh said at a "national conference on new research in the field of nuclear power plants" in Bushehr province on 17 December, Trend reports.
In his assessment, this approach will facilitate the mitigation of the electricity deficit within the national grid.
Banazadeh noted that in the case of construction and commissioning of the second and third phases of Bushehr NPP, each phase will produce 1,057 megawatt hours of electricity.
The official added that 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by the first phase of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant have been delivered to the national power system.
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.
To note, 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.