#Iran

A 3 MW solar power plant, valued at approximately 900 billion rials ($1.8 million), is set to be built in northern Tehran.

The Armenian government approved an energy project to construct a new 400 kV transmission line to Iran.

85% of the third power transmission line between Armenia and Iran has been constructed.

Iran, Tehran: Iran’s Minister of Energy Ali Akbar Mehrabian has announced that the power transmission grids of Iran and Pakistan have been connected.

The transmission line for importing 100 MW additional power supply from Iran to Gwadar in Pakistan has been completed.

Iran, Babol City: Iran’s largest integrated three-phase transformer in Babol City, Mazandaran Province, has become operational.

Iran, Ahvaz: A fire broke out at a power station in southwest Iran on 4 July, the latest of several blazes and explosions to hit sensitive sites.

The length of electricity network was expanded by more than 15.000 km in the previous Iranian calendar year 1398 (ended on March 19).

Iran,Tehran: Some 188 new transformers have been installed across the national power network to supply electricity to rural areas.

Iran: Iran has struck an initial agreement with Syria to rebuild Damascus’s power grid, state media reported on Saturday.

Iran: The first phase of a 132 kV substation in Choram County came online and construction on the second phase started, the Iranian Energy Ministry news portal Paven reported.

Iran, Tehran: Iran has invested over $3.87 B (162.6 T rials) in electricity and water generation over the last year, according to the Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian.

Iran, Tehran: Iran’s Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian revealed the country has devised plans to overhaul its power industry within the next five years, which need a collective investment of $30 billion to be materialized.

Kazakhstan, Astana: During the presidential visit of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Tehran, Iran, companies from the two countries signed more than 60 contracts valued at over $2 billion.

Iran, Tehran: Head of the Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has announced that Iran exported power transformers worth $74 million in 2014.

Iran, Babol: The most efficient power plant with an efficiency of over 45% was inaugurated in the Beshel Industrial Park.