EghtesadOnline: Operations to build new thermal power plants in southern provinces with a combined output capacity of 2,000 megawatts are underway as part of efforts to minimize outages, the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company's deputy for planning said.

EghtesadOnline: Thermal power plants running on fossil fuels to generate power account for 81.1% of Iran's total electricity production capacity, Thermal Power Plants Holding Company's deputy for planning said on Monday.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian thermal power plants’ power generation capacity will increase by 2,900 megawatts by end of the current Iranian calendar year of 1396 (to end on March 21, 2018).

EghtesadOnline: Iran's state operator of thermal power plants is on pace to divest a spate of power stations to reduce the government's footprint in the key energy industry.

EghtesadOnline: In line with efforts to expand electricity output capacity, the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company has signed three preliminary deals to build new thermal power plants that will add 8,400 megawatts to the country's total electricity production capacity by 2023, the company's deputy for planning said.

EghtesadOnline: In line with efforts to attract much-needed foreign funds to expand power output capacity, the Energy Ministry has signed preliminary deals worth $6 billion to build new thermal power plants since early 2016, when sanctions against Tehran were lifted, managing director of Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPHC) said.

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.