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Start-up for Iran’s first geothermal power plant approaching says official
Bitcoin power consumption need not blow your brains - yet
now a programme to decommission the old power stations of Arasht, Rey, and Be’sat in Tehran over the next few years. They contribute 60 megawatts (Mw) of power to the grid.
TPPH managing director Mohsen Tarztalab said: “Despite the low efficiency of these three old power plants of Tehran, they should operate in the summer due to the high electricity consumption, and to prevent possible blackouts during the peak period, but now we also have plans to replace these power plants.”
The first power station in the capital earmarked for closure is Rey. The authorities say it needs to be shut down by December this year, as the city continues to suffer from temperature-induced heavy pollution or the "inversion effect", to which Rey power plant contributes a significant portion as it sits within the boundaries of the capital.
Iran's first geothermal power plant will go into operation before the end of the present 2020/2021 Persian calendar year (March 20), according to Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Haeri.
First-phase primary electricity generation capacity of the $40.4mn plant would be five megawatts (MW), he said, adding that there were plans for further phases to gradually take that up to 50 MW.
Thermal Power Plants Holding (TPPH) is working on the plant in Meshkin Shahr county in the northwestern Ardebil province. The power plant will be located at the foot of Mount Sabalan, almost 85 kilometres northwest of Ardebil, and will feed electricity into the local grid.
ILNA reported Haeri as saying the project was 71% complete and that “technical knowledge in the design, construction and commissioning of geothermal power plants... has become indigenous”.
The first phase of the plant development will attribute a 5 MW turbine, while a total of 50 MW is the goal of later phases.
Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran, take a bow (or perhaps bury your head in shame from the environmental perspective) for making the top 10 for Bitcoin hashing on the​ ​Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. Those mining Bitcoin—a decentralised digital currency without a central bank or single administrator—refer to the “hashrate”. Put simply, the hashrate is a measure of the computing power people plugged into electrical grids around the world are contributing to the mining.
And​ ​here​ and below is that top 10 as calculated by a study from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School.
Assessing just how much electricity the 11-year-old global Bitcoin mining industry—with its peer-to-peer electronic cash system—is consuming, the study settles on an annualised estimate of 7.46 GW, equivalent to around 64.83 terawatt-hours of energy consumption (slightly more than the Czech Republic, at 62.34 TWh per year, and Austria, at 64.60 TWh per year consume).
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