Report: Electricity available to 99.8% of Iran’s villages

Iran’s Energy Ministry has further expanded electricity penetration across the country, as an official says that some 99.8% of villages in Iran have access to power.

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Majid Barangi, who leads rural electrification operations at Iran’s state electricity company Tavanir, said on Saturday that some 144 villages across Iran had been connected to the country’s electrical grid over the past 12 months, bringing the total number of villages with access to electricity to 58,937.

Barangi said that the government had spent 240 trillion rials ($240 million) on rural electrification since 2021, saying multiple projects have been carried out to stabilize the electricity network in Iran's hard-to-reach areas, where many villages are located.

He said the number of villages with access to electricity in Iran had increased by 13 times in the past four decades.

Tavanir’s CEO Mostafa Rajabi also said on Saturday that the Iranian government has accelerated its efforts to provide electricity to nomadic families.

Rajabi said that portable solar panels had been supplied to some 7,500 nomadic families over the past year to expand electricity penetration in the community.

He said that Tavanir has also introduced 35 major projects to expand electricity access to households living in remote Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, including in Bu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb.

The official said that the company has also carried out thousands of projects to renovate and modernize the national electrical grid in Iran despite electricity production issues that have existed in the country in recent years./isna