According to TPPH Public Relations and International
Affairs Office, Mohsen Tarztalab, Managing Director of TPPH expressed in the
sideline of the 18th International Exhibition of Iran Power Industry
among the reporters: “in the first 6 months of the current year, the amount of
the country’s power generation was more than 185 billion Kwh which 96.2% of it
were generated in the thermal power plants.”
He added: “the readiness of thermal power plants in this
summer like the last year summer, was more than 99% and from 53000 Mw country’s
power generation in the peak period in this summer, 48000 Mw have been
generated in the thermal power plants.”
Managing Director of Thermal Power Plant Holding Company
mentioned: “in the current year, the thermal power generation has been
increased 4.3 % in relation to the last year generation, but the fuel
consumption has not risen and this shows that the efficiency of the thermal
power generation has been raised.”
He continued: “the average efficiency of power generation
in the thermal power plants is 37.9% right now and it must be 40%.”
Referring to programs in order to decrease the water
consumption of the thermal power plants which are in progress, he said: “in
Shahid Mofattah Power Plant in Hamedan, we could decrease the water consumption
significantly by turning the wet tower to dry water and the same process is in
progress for the second unit of the power plant.”
He stated: “this plan is also happening in Isfahan power
plant and Biston power plant in Kermanshah in order to change the wet cooling
unit of this power plant in the first phase from wet tower to dry tower.”
In replying to the question "What is the result of
the Unit Company’s investment for construction of power plant in Iran?",
he said: “the governmental guarantees for attracting financial resources have
been given to this investor about one and half month ago, but this company has
announced that it is waiting for clarification of international conditions in
order it can present the Iran’s governmental guarantee to foreign banks to get
loans.”
He continued: “in this stage, it cannot be said exactly
if this company will be successful in investing for construction of power plant
in Iran or not, but negotiations are continued and Unit Company has agreed 95%
of presented governmental guarantee text and has only mentioned some points
about some articles.”
About the assignment of 7,500 megawatts of electric power
production capacity, which was supposed to be made by converting simple cycle
power plants into a combined cycle without using fuel, Tarztalab said: “Of this
amount, we advanced 3500 megawatts with the private sector by signing the contract
and all power plants of this contracts are going to be complete and enter to
the network.”
Managing Director of TPPH mentioned: “We are also looking
for converting the power plant’s simple cycle 3 into combined cycle by using Note 19 of the Budget Law and the sale of the gas
unit and allocate it to encourage the investor to create steam unit.”
Regarding the level of negotiations with foreign
companies over the recent years, Managing Director of TPPH Co. said: “Totally
in the last 3 years, the sum of negotiations, agreements and signed contracts
with foreign companies for the construction of power plants in Iran has been
made to 6.3 billion Euros and to date, except the financial line of Russia, no
negotiations and financial line have not been opened.”
