EghtesadOnline: Upgrading, repair and maintenance of thermal power plants added 620 megawatts to the total output since the beginning of the current fiscal (ends in March), an official at the Thermal Power Plant Holding Company said Sunday.

EghtesadOnline: Home Appliances, Furniture and Maintenance ”, one of 12 groups of goods and services surveyed by the Statistical Center of Iran, registered an average annualized inflation rate of 33.9% in the eighth month of the current Iranian year (Oct. 23-Nov. 21).

EghtesadOnline: Iran has acquired the know-how to repair Siemens gas turbines and local engineers can now carry out all the maintenance work of the turbines, head of the National Iranian Gas Transmission Company said.

EghtesadOnline: More than 700,000 transformers are used in the domestic power distribution network and according to statistics one-third are worn out and need to be replaced, a member of Iran Electricity Industry Syndicate said.