{"id":1897,"date":"2017-11-24T20:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/hydropower-output-increases\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:21:13","slug":"hydropower-output-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/hydropower-output-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydropower Output Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> \tDespite facing low levels of rainfall and hot temperatures, Iran has managed to extract 10% more electrical power from its hydroelectric dams since March 2017, the beginning of its fiscal year, compared to the same spell of last year.<br \/> \t&#8220;Since the start of the year, hydroelectric dams have produced over 12 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. That is 10% higher from the same period of a year ago,&#8221; said Farbod Estiri, a deputy at Iran Water Resources Management Company, the Energy Ministry&#8217;s news portal reported on Friday.<br \/> \tThe increase was chiefly driven by domestic demand for electricity to power air conditioners. The country&#8217;s power demand shot up to a record level of 55,400 megawatts in July.<br \/> \tAccording to Estiri, the lion&#8217;s share of Iran&#8217;s hydroelectric capacity of 11,875 MW is installed on Karun River that runs through the southwest of Iran.<br \/> \t&#8220;Unfortunately, precipitation has been insignificant in and around Karun and Karkheh rivers (in Khuzestan Province),&#8221; the official said, adding that most of the hydropower capacity is being overhauled after sustaining high electrical loads for two consecutive years.<br \/> \tWith an installed capacity of 77,000 MW, Iran&#8217;s energy mix is dominated by fossil fuel power stations, by 12,000 MW of hydroelectric, 1,000 MW of nuclear and less than 500 MW of renewable power capacity.<br \/> \tIran&#8217;s push to raise power production capacity calls for upgrading aging power plants with highly efficient turbines and developing a mix of new thermal and renewable power projects.<br \/> \tThe country hopes to add 5,000 MW of new capacity per year through 2022, the end of its Sixth Five-Year Economic Development Plan.<\/p>\n<p> \t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Despite facing low levels of rainfall and hot temperatures, Iran has managed to extract 10% more electrical power from its hydroelectric dams since March 2017, the beginning of its fiscal year, compared to the same spell of last year. &#8220;Since the start of the year, hydroelectric dams have produced over 12 billion kilowatt-hours of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8],"tags":[296,118,28,31,159,639,178,56,213,84,95,82,68,22,23,27],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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