Time for Transition to Modern Power Plants

Repair and maintenance of aging power plants cannot improve their low efficiency as expected and there is a critical need for modern equipment, head of Tehran’s Besat Power Plant said.
Regarding the 53-year-old Besat station, he said: “When it was built in 1968 its efficiency rate was 34%. Now it is below 30%. Although it is possible to make some improvement by efficient repair and maintenance, efficiency will not exceed the initial 34%,” the Energy Ministry news portal Paven quoted Masoud Sheykh as saying.
He stressed that innovation and modernization in the power sector is a must. "Modernizing old and ageing power plants is not a matter of convenience. It is a compulsion."