List of power stations in Iran

By 2012, Iran had roughly 400 power plant units. By the end of 2013, it had a total installed electricity generation capacity of 70,000 MW, up from 90 MW in 1948, and 7024 MW in 1978. There are plans to add more than 5,000 MW of generation capacity annually to the power grid, which would almost double the total power generation capacity to 122,000 MW by 2022. The government of Iran planned to privatize 20 power plants by September 2010. Iran's peak demand for electricity was 45,693 MW during the summer of 2013.

It was predicted that Iran would account for 17.08% of MENA power generation by 2014. Natural gas was the major fuel used to generate electricity in Iran in 2009, accounting for an estimated 56.8% of primary energy demand (PED), followed by oil at 40.8% and hydroelectricity at 1.4%. As of 2010, the average efficiency of power plants in Iran was 38%. The figure should reach 45% within five years and 50% under Vision 2025.

Electricity generation in 2008 accounted for 203.8 TWh, or roughly 1% of world's total production, an increase of 5.9% from the year before. In 2008, the total electricity generated was 190.2 TWh, of which 93.3% was generated by power plants affiliated with the Ministry of Energy and 13.6 TWh (6.7%) by other institutions, which were mostly from the private sector. The largest share of electricity (91.1 TWh) was generated by steam power plants, while diesel power plants accounted for the smallest share of generation (0.2 TWh). In 2008, the highest growth in generation of electricity belonged to gas and combined-cycle power plants, with a 9.3% growth rate while, the amount of electricity generated by hydroelectric power plants declined by 1.7%. As of 2010, the consumer price of electricity in Iran was 1.6 US cents per kilowatt-hour, while the real production cost was about 8.0 US cents. (See also: Cost of electricity by source)

In 2010, 900,000 jobs were directly or indirectly related to the Iranian power industry. Currently, Iran's spares power capacity stands at 3%, but this amount is much lower than the ideal 25% of peak power used. It has been estimated that 23.5% of the electricity generation is wasted in the transmission network. Iran's power grid has been connected to seven neighboring countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and annually exports 5.5 TWh of electricity.

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