Tavanir Says Power Output Not Sufficient for Summer Season

Installed power capacity of substations, including transmission and distribution, needs to expand by 10% to meet domestic power demand in summer when consumption levels always reach peak creating outages in some regions.
Seyyed Zaman Hosseini, a deputy managing director in Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) made the statement in the 5th International Transformer Conference and Exhibition in Tehran on Tuesday, Paven, the Energy Ministry news portal reported.
Length of the national power distribution network now surpasses 800,000 km and the grid was extended by more than 18,000 km in the last year alone, he said.