Iran will add a sum of 14 power plants to its electricity grid to prevent power cuts during the hot months of the next year, said a member of the parliamentary Energy Committee.
Reza Sepahvand told Iran Daily that over 3,600 MW will be added to the country’s electricity generation capacity by launching the new power stations, which are expected to help the country to face no outages next year.
Referring to the need to develop renewable energy, Sepahvand said renewable energy is developing rapidly in the world but it is not well-developed in our country.
In the Seventh Five-Year Development Plan (2024-28), special attention has been paid to the development of renewable energies, the lawmaker stated.
“In the budget bill of next Iranian calendar year of 1404 (to start March 21, 2025), the government has allocated proper credits to the development of renewable energies, and on the other hand, the Energy Committee of the Parliament along with the Ministry of Energy is determined to achieve the development goals in the renewable energy sector,” he noted.
The parliamentarian went on to say that our country, especially in the field of solar electricity production, enjoys very good capacities, so that in most parts of Iran, solar energy can be used for electricity production, provided that the Ministry of Energy purchases the electricity produced by the private sector in time or allow private sector producers to export their electricity output.
Early in August, Iran’s then Minister of Energy Ali-Akbar Mehrabian said that unprecedented heat had caused a 9% rise in the country’s electricity consumption as summer heat had reached record levels.
He said that 9% of 80,000 megawatts equals as much as 7,000 megawatts which would require $7 billion worth of investment in the power plant industry.