Thermal power plants’ output reaches 300m MWh

A senior official announced that this year, thermal power plants’ electricity generation grew by 1.9 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 300 million megawatt-hours (MWh), while fuel consumption increased by just 0.7 percent.
According to Mehr News Agency, citing the state-owned Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH), Esmaeil Namazi stated that the gap between production growth and fuel consumption indicates that the country’s power plants, along with the Ministry of Energy, are focusing on enhancing efficiency, utilizing high-efficiency power plants, and expanding the steam sections of combined-cycle power plants. This approach has enabled the generation of more electricity with less fuel.

Namazi highlighted that thermal power plants’ electricity production in the first 10 months of this year (March 20, 2024- January 19, 2025) increased by 1.9 percent year-on-year, surpassing 300 million megawatt-hours. Of this output, 57 percent came from combined-cycle units (high-efficiency plants), which