11 Power Projects Inaugurated in Yazd

President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated 11 power transmission and distribution projects in the central Yazd Province on Thursday.
Costing $50 million, the projects are aimed at network construction in urban areas, electricity supply to villages, repairing networks in rural and urban regions, improving lighting of cities and villages, preventing grid voltage drop and stabilizing power supply in the hot region in the summer, the Energy Ministry’s news portal reported.
Giving a breakdown, Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian noted that six 63/20 kilovolt distribution substations in Meibod, Mehriz and Ashkezar counties went on stream at an estimated cost of $25 million to increase electricity supply capacity and reduce power wastage.