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Iran seeks to increase power supply capacity

Xinhua, April 29, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran will add 4,000 megawatts of capacity to its power grid by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, Deputy Energy Minister Houshang Falahatian said on Saturday.

By building new plants, "the overall capacity of the country's power plants will reach 80,000 megawatts at the end of the year," March 20, 2018, Falahatian said according to Press TV.

Iran is also working on the projects to convert fossil-fueled facilities into combined cycle systems powered by gas, thus boosting efficiency in addition to cutting greenhouse gases, he said.

Iran Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said earlier that Iran had to generate 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy over the next five years.

His ministry has received requests for 3.6 billion U.S. dollars of investment from private companies to produce renewables, he said. Endit