BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 21. Iran has saved 7 million barrels of crude oil worth $105 billion through the operation of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Bushehr province, located in southern Iran, Iran's Vice President and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami said during a speech at a conference on wiring, cable, and related industries, Trend reports.
According to him, 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity have been produced at the first unit of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Eslami noted that Iran has invested $1.8 billion to commission the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
In 2011, the first unit of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant began operations. An Iranian company took over the unit's operation from Rosatom in 2013. Since 2013, this unit has generated the maximum amount of electricity, 1,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. Over the past 10 years, electricity generation at Bushehr NPP has exceeded 65 billion kilowatt-hours.
To note, construction of Bushehr NPP Blocks 2 and 3 began in 2017 on an area of 50 ha. Once operational, each of these units can generate 1,057 megawatts of electricity. The commissioning of these two units will save 10 million barrels of crude oil or 1.6 bcm of gas per year and prevent the release of 7 million tons of polluting gases into the environment.
The construction work on Bushehr NPP Units 2 and 3 is presently 17 percent complete.