Plans Underway to Decommission Tehran’s Decrepit Power Plants

Iran’s Thermal Power Plants Holding Company has started operations to decommission the most outdated power stations in the capital, director of planning at the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said.
“Tarasht Thermal Power Plant in the west of Tehran has been generating electricity for more than 60 years while the estimated useful life of an electricity station is around 20 years,” Barq News also quoted Hamidreza Azimi as saying.
Cooling towers of the dilapidated gas-powered plant are being demolished and operations to build modern gas- and steam-powered units have commenced, he added.
“The new combined-cycle station with 60% efficiency will have six units, two of which are supposed to be synchronized with the national power grid in June 2022, when demand reaches its peak. The other four units will become operational one year later.”