Iran 9th in Thermal Power Output

With installed capacity of 65 gigawatts, Iran ranks ninth in terms of thermal power capacity in the world.
According to a report by the Energy Ministry, the total power capacity in the world is 6,628 GW, of which 4,017 GW comes from thermal plants running on fossil fuels, or  61% of the total.
In Iran, steam-powered plants, gas-powered stations and combined-cycle plants comprise 80.8% of the total nominal electricity production capacity of 81 GW, the Energy Ministry news portal reported.
China, the US, India, Japan, Russia, Germany, South Korea and Saudi Arabia have larger thermal capacity compared to Iran and are ranked first to eighth respectively. 
A total of 123 thermal power plants are operational. Steam, gas and combined-cycle units account for 16 GW, 25 GW and 23 GW of the thermal stations respectively.
Moreover, hydropower plants (14.8%), distributed generation stations (1.8%), Bushehr nuclear plant in south Iran (1.3%), renewables (0.9%) and diesel (0.5%) constitute the rest of the capacity.