Iran's electricity production topped 200 billion kilowatts per hour since start of the current Iranian year.
The bulk of production in the period shows an increase of 5.84 percent compared to the figure n the preceding period.
The thermal units had a share of 193,302 gigawatts per hour in the process, while the hydroelectric power generation units having a share of 9,749 gigawatts per hour.
In August, the Iranian Energy Ministry announced that the country has exported 3,949gw/h of electricity in the last 4 months, which shows a 46% growth compared with the same period last year.
With the implementation of subsidy reforms law, not only domestic electricity consumption has reduced but also annual growth in electricity demand has been checked, thus paving the way for further export of electricity to the neighboring countries.
Iran has power swap deals with Armenia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan and the autonomous region of Nakhichevan.
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Publish Date: 4 January 2013 - 10:03
Iran hiked generation of electricity by 5.84% since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21).