BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 29. The Shahid Salimi Neka Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Iran’s northern Mazandaran Province raised electricity production by 29.8 percent in the two months of the current Iranian year (from March 21 through May 21, 2025) compared to the same period of last year (from March 20 through May 20, 2024), the CEO of Neka Power Generation Management Company Abdolreza Mahmoudi told reporters, Trend reports.
According to him, within two months, the plant produced and supplied 1.57 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity to the country's grid.
Mahmoudi added that repair work was carried out for 17 days in the first and third blocks of the TPP, one gas block, and five days in the combined cycle block.
Meanwhile, during the last Iranian year (from March 20, 2024, through March 20, 2025), the Shahid Salim Neka TPP produced 9.41 billion kWh of electricity. As many as 75 percent of the electricity was produced in steam blocks, and 25 percent in other blocks. Electricity production at the thermal power plant increased by 12.3 percent compared to the previous year (from March 21, 2023, through March 19, 2024).
The Shahid Salimi (Neka) TPP has four steam units, each with a capacity of 440 megawatts (MW). It also has two gas units, each with a capacity of 137.6 MW. Moreover, it has one gas-steam (combined cycle) unit with a capacity of 160 megawatts and two expansion turbines with a capacity of 9.4 megawatts each.
The TPP can generate a total of 2,214 MW of electricity and accounts for more than four percent of Iran’s electricity generation.
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