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projects related to liberated areas
Tehran to decommission three high pollution oil-fired power plants
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announced, as reported by APA.
The projects relate to areas that were late last year liberated from Armenia's occupation by Azerbaijan armed forces.
Construction operations have been reviewed by technical experts from both Azerbaijan and Iran, as well as by representatives from Azerbaijan Amelioration and Water Farm Company and Azerenerji, the leading power generator and distribution company in Azerbaijan, ​ISNA news agency reported.
“Following these agreements, the process of implementation and operation of Khudaferin and Giz Galasy dams will accelerate and in the near future, the people of the two countries will benefit from the joint use of water and energy resources of these dams,” the head of the Regional Water Company of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, Yousef Ghaffarzadeh, was cited as saying. Khudaferin dam is one of the largest earth-fill embankment dams in the northwest of Iran and has the capacity to hold 1.6bn cubic metres of water on the Araz river, he added. The dam's regulated water volume is 2bn cubic metres. It will aim to supply 1bn cubic metres of water to Iran annually.
Other functions of the dam, now 95% complete, are flood control, development of aquaculture and fisheries, and production of 550 MWh of electricity annually.
Giz Galasy dam is reportedly 90%-complete. Ghaffarzadeh was cited as saying that it would aim to supply the required water for the Khudaferin irrigation and drainage network and target annual electricity production of 270 MWh.
The electricity networks of Azerbaijan and Iran are interconnected via five existing electric power transmission lines.
Tehran has plans to decommission three high pollution oil-fired old power plants within the next three years as part of an energy efficiency drive, ILNA has reported.
Much of the electricity and power infrastructure in Iran dates back to before the 1979 revolution. Big American companies like General Electric that were ejected from the country after the coup had helped create the infrastructure in conjunction with the former Pahlavi monarchy. Since then the Islamic Republic has continued to operate much of that infrastructure but has had to fabricate parts locally as US sanctions have made it impossible to continue importing replacement parts.
According to the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company (TPPH), there is 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.
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