Baku, Azerbaijan, April 15
By Gazenfer Hamidov – Trend:
Iran has added 2,056 megawatts (MW) to its electric generation capacity in the last fiscal year, ended March 2018, according to a report released by the country’s energy ministry.
The combined-cycle power plants had the highest share from the added capacity (800 MW), followed by gas power plants (558 MW) and hydroelectric stations (365 MW). Over 100 MW of the added capacity falls on renewables as well.
The nominal electric generation capacity of the country currently stands at 78,484 MW. Gas power plants (27,532 MW) share 35.1 percent of the generation capacity. Meanwhile the shares of combined-cycle (20,270 MW) and steam power plants (15,829 MW) account for 25.8 and 20.2 percent, respectively.
Nominal electric generation capacities of hydroelectric plants (11,881 MW) and Bushehr nuclear power plant (1020 MW) are equal to 15.1 and 1.3 percent of electric generation capacity, while the share of renewables stands at only 0.46 percent or 364 MW.
The ministry report also said that, Iran's power plants generated over 13,852 GWh (gigawatt hours) of electricity since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 21) until April 6.
Iran’s electricity export reached 354 GWh from the beginning of the current fiscal year to April 6, registering a rise by 26 percent year-on-year, meanwhile, Iran imported 198 GWh of electricity during the period, registering an 8-percent fall compared to the same period of the preceding year.
Iran’s thermal power plants produced 13,375 GWh of electricity in total during the reporting period, while 477 GWh of the country's total electricity accounted for hydroelectric power plants.
Iran plans to increase its nominal electric generation capacity to 80,000 MW by summer 2018, and to 100,000 by 2025, 1,000 MW of which should be produced from solar energy.
Households consumed 33 percent of Iran’s generated power (84,682 GWh) during the last fiscal year (ended March 20), while the industry sector and agriculture sectors’ consumption from the country’s electricity generation stood at 32.8 and 15.4 percent, respectively.
Street lighting and commercial consumption accounted for 1.8 and 7.4 percent of the overall consumed electricity in the period.
The length of Medium-Voltage Lines of Iran’s distribution network is 424,000 kilometers, while the length of Low-Voltage Lines stands at 363,000 kilometers.
Number of the country’s transformers is 686,000 with overall capacity of 118,901 megavolt-amperes.
During the current fiscal year (March 20 to April 6) Iran has delivered 2,743 million cubic meters of natural gas to power plants, 19.9 percent more year-on-year, while the diesel supply to this sector has significantly increased by 160 percent to 26 million liters.
The Iranian power plants also consumed 19 million liters of fuel oil in the period, 44 percent less year-on-year.
