EghtesadOnline: The Thermal Power Plants Holding Company has signed a contract with unnamed investors to build power plants with a total electricity generating capacity of 5,000 megawatts, or 5 gigawatts, the company's deputy for planning said.

EghtesadOnline: An estimated 3,500 megawatts in new electricity production capacity will be added to the national power grid by the summer of next year, deputy energy minister for planning said on Wednesday.

EghtesadOnline: A slew of foreign investors have agreed to build thermal power plants in Iran in what would raise the country's electricity generating capacity to more than 80,000 megawatts, an official at the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company of Iran said.