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]]>Houshang Falahatian, while stating that the average efficiency rate in the country’s power stations are expected to climb from the current 38 to over 40 per cent in the Sixth National Development Plan, said a competitive tender will be sought in near future for construction the steam section of gas power houses.
He highlighted that the tender aimed to elevate efficiency of existing power plants estimating that the efficiency for 18 thousand megawatts of capacity in gas power stations will rise from 33 to 48 per cent.
The official pointed to the plan to build 25 thousand megawatts of new power plants within a five-year project asserting that new generating stations will be all constructed with an efficiency of higher than 58 per cent by using F- and H-class turbines.
“Iran currently ranks 6th or 7th in the world as regards power plant building since the facilities with an efficiency rate of about 50 per cent can be constructed domestically from scratch,” maintained Falahatian adding that plans were underway to transfer technologies to the country for efficiency escalation.
He recalled that, over the past two years, natural gas has accounted for 94 per cent of feed stock in generating plants lowering gas oil and fuel oil consumption to a minimum level.
“As new gas production facilities come on stream in following years, all power plants will be supplied with gas,” stressed deputy energy minister commenting that the measure was also a contribution to the environment.
On termination of gas exports by Turkmenistan, he stressed that the amount of imported gas from the neighboring country was negligible in view of the country’s overall consumption figure.
“Careful consumption of gas can compensate for the halt in imports from Turkmenistan,” continued Falahatian concluding that “the stoppage in exports of 25 million cubic meters by Turkmenistan would pose no threat to Iran who is capable of supplying its domestic demand.”
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]]>The Iranian Energy Ministry’s recent statement, which pertains to the latest status to electricity production in hydroelectric power plants, reads “the supplied energy in the first 39 weeks of the current Iranian calendar year is indicative of a 2.2% rise as compared to the similar period one year ago.”
The overall amount of electricity supply to the national grid has therefore reached an aggregate total of 229,354 gigawatt hours.
Accordingly, domestic electricity production in the meantime has climbed to 226,036 gigawatt hours experiencing 2.13 percent of uplift.
Furthermore, the imported electricity has gone up by 7.35 per cent reaching a total of 3,318 gigawatt hours in the mentioned time span.
Of the overall electricity output of Iran, more than 213,690 gigawatt hours were produced by thermal power stations while approximately 12,346 gigawatt hours have been yielded by hydroelectric power houses.
The volume electricity brought out by thermal and hydroelectric power plants by the 39th week of the current year has respectively ascended by 1.62 and 11.8 per cent as compared to the similar period in the year before.
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