According to
Public Relations Office of TPPH Co., In order to develop electricity production in
the west of the country, respond to the growth of consumption in the region and
export electricity to neighboring countries, the construction of the Dalahu
F-Class Combined Cycle Power Plant with an efficiency of 56% is on the agenda.
The Dalhou
Combined Cycle Power Plant consists of two 310-megawatt gas units and a
293-megawatt steam unit with a total capacity of 913 megawatts. The second gas
unit of the complex has been put into operation today and according to the
plan, the steam unit of the power plant will enter the circuit in the spring of
next year.
The
implementation of the Dalahu Combined Cycle Power Plant project will create
direct employment of 500 people and indirect employment of 5,000 people, and
90% of the total employment of the power plant will be the share of local employees
in the region.
Dalahou
Combined Cycle Power Plant is under construction with the investment of Farab
Company at 60 km of Kermanshah-Islamabad road.
Emphasizing
that 1,309 MW has been added to the capacity of the country's power plants
since the beginning of the year, Minister of Energy said: "This year only,
about 11,000 billion Tomans have been invested in the electricity generation
sector."
He added:
"This project is the ninth thermal power plant that this year after
Tehran, Lorestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Mazandaran and Semnan provinces, this
time in Dalahou city of Kermanshah province, the second unit of gas power plant
with a capacity of 307 MW and investment of 2,530 billion Tomans is in
operation and the first unit of which was opened in December last year."
He emphasized:
"During the government of Wisdom and Hope, 40,000 billion Tomans have been invested
annually in the electricity sector, some of which have been completed in the
conditions of severe economic sanctions using public resources, including the
government budget and private sector investment."
In this ceremony, The Deputy
Minister of Energy for Electricity and Energy Affairs, emphasizing that more
than two thousand megawatts of thermal power generation units will enter the
circuit this year, said: "Today, with the opening of the second Dalahou
gas unit, the capacity of power plants reached 84,000 megawatts."
Homayoun Haeri
added: "The Dalahou Class F power plant with 56% efficiency and 913 MW
capacity includes two 307 MW gas units and a 293 MW steam unit, which is being
constructed by Farab Company as an investor in the form of a guaranteed
electricity purchase contract."
Emphasizing
that the 293-megawatt unit of the power plant steam section will enter the
circuit before the peak of next summer, he continued: "the total resources
allocated for this project is 365 million euros, equivalent to two
thousand and 530 billion Tomans, of
which 220 million euros will be financed by the National Development Fund and €
145 million by the investor. Among the
benefits of this plan will be the increase of the country's electricity
generation capabilities, the development of industrial activities in the
western region of the country, as well as the increase of the country's
electricity export capacities."
Emphasizing
that more than two thousand megawatts of thermal power generation units will
enter the circuit this year, he added: "About one thousand megawatts of
this capacity is related to the steam units of combined cycle power plants,
which in the form of six steam units set a new record which will be registered in
opening of these projects."
The Deputy
Minister of Energy for Electricity and Energy Affairs, stating that these units
will generate electricity without additional fuel consumption, said: "With
the opening of these projects, 1.5 billion cubic meters of fuel consumption
will be saved."
Haeri reminded:
"Last year, the efficiency of the country's power plants reached 38.56%
for the first time, and by the end of this year, the efficiency of thermal power
plants will exceed 39%."