US President Donald Trump as soon as once more threatened to strike Iran’s power plants, saying that, if Iran doesn’t return to the negotiating desk, “next week it gets really bad for them, because next week comes the power plants.”
Iran has about 110 fuel vegetation, a small quantity of that are hybrid, in keeping with data from OpenInfraMap, an open-source intelligence instrument for researching vitality infrastructure, compiled by volunteers.
The nation additionally operates photo voltaic, hydro, wind, oil, diesel, coal, geothermal and nuclear vegetation, in keeping with the location.
The three greatest vegetation by output run on fuel:
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Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant: situated round 70 km southeast from downtown Tehran. Output: 2,868MW.
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Shahid Salimi: situated in Mazandaran province, close to the Caspian Sea. Output: 2,215 MW.
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Shahid Rajai: situated some 110 km northeast of downtown Tehran. Output: 2,043 MW.
For context: Florida’s West County Energy Center is the most important working pure fuel energy plant in the US, with an output of 3,750 MW, in keeping with OpenInfraMap.
Iran produces most of its electrical energy through fossil fuels. Over 340,000 GWh got here from such fuels, whereas virtually 28,000 GWh was from renewable vitality in 2023, in keeping with information from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website.
Iran says it solely has one nuclear energy reactor in operation — the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in the west — and one other underneath development, in keeping with the IAEA. In 2023, Iran produced 5,740 GWh of electrical energy by nuclear vitality.