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    ELECTRICITY STORAGE CAPACITY UP

    Zawya.com
    http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20111114050930
    Nov 14 2011

    Electricity storage exceeded 10,000 megawatts, announced Iran's Energy
    Ministry in its report.

    The report added electricity storage currently stands at 10,458
    megawatts, Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.

    In consumption, electricity storage was put at 575 megawatts while
    non-used electricity storage stood at 9.883 megawatts on Friday.

    Operational power was also recorded at 55,256 megawatts on Friday,
    4,049 megawatts higher than the figure for the preceding year which
    was 51,207 megawatts.

    Power Generation Power generation has reached 160,532 gigawatt hours
    since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), Energy
    Ministry said in a report.

    According to the report, of the said figure over 152,649 gigawatt hours
    pertained to thermal units while 7,883 gigawatt hours was related to
    hydroelectric units, Mehr News Agency reported.

    During the said period, power generation in thermal power plants
    indicated a 67-percent decline over the amount for the same period
    last year, and that of hydroelectric power plants was 9.63 percent
    higher than the figure for the corresponding period of the past year,
    the report said.

    It added that the amount of supplied energy in the said time span
    was more than 162,938 gigawatt hours, showing 0.01 percent decline
    against the same duration of the preceding year.

    Transactions Power transactions with neighboring countries reached
    about 880,000 megawatt hours during September 23-October 22.

    Some 704,000 megawatt hours of the said figure pertained to exports
    and close to 175,000 megawatt hours were for imports.

    In the said time span, Iran exported power to Pakistan, Armenia,
    Turkey, Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran also
    imported power from Armenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Nakhchivan in
    the same duration.

    source: Iran Daily

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