South Tehran Power Plant Retires

Iran's Thermal Power Plants Holding Company has signed a contract with Mapna, the engineering and energy giant, to decommission the 52-year old Besat Thermal Power Plant in south Tehran.
As per the agreement signed Saturday in Tehran between Mapna CEO Abbas Aliabadi and Mohsen Tarztalab the TPPHC boss, an ageing turbine in the power station will be replaced with a modern gas turbine (MGT-75) manufactured by Mapna, the Energy Ministry news website reported Sunday.
“The new turbine will cut water consumption from 18 million liters per day to less than 800,000 l/d,” Tarztalab noted, and said the project's installation and launch will be entirely undertaken by domestic engineers and technicians.