(MENAFN) Iran’s thermal power plants’ electricity generation capacity has surpassed 73,500 megawatts (MW), a representative with the nation’s Thermal Power Plants Holding firm (TPPH) declared.
Mohammad Ramezani, the chief of the firm’s ventures improvement department, made the comments referring to the inauguration of a thermal power plant unit in Ardebil district in northwestern Iran, as repoted by IRNA.
Ramezani had previously stated that there are presently 604 thermal units operating in 134 power plants through the nation.
As said by the representative, the private industry presently functions 396 power plants that constitute in 68 percent of the electricity produced by overall thermal power plants in the nations.
“Currently, the capacity of the country's power plants, including thermal, hydroelectric, renewable, diesel, small-scale and nuclear, has reached about 90,000 megawatts, of which 81 percent is related to thermal power plants,” as stated by the official at the end of December last year.
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