TEHRAN- Head of Iran's Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (known as Tavanir) Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi said that the generation capacity of the country’s small scale power plants has surpassed 1,300 megawatts (MW).

He announced the completion of 61 vital projects of the electricity transmission network before the peak period of this summer and emphasized, “With the implementation of these projects, no shutdown of generation or shutdown due to the weakness of the network has occurred during the peak period of this year and we were able to speed up in the implementation process, and achieved good records, which caused the duration of the contract to be reduced from 24 months to 13 months in some projects.”

According to the official, Tavanir has implemented 61 transmission and super distribution network development projects since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20).

He said the mentioned projects have been implemented with the aim of minimizing the possibility of any incident and disruption in the electricity supply during the peak consumption periods.

“Due to the fact that in the summer the electricity transmission and distribution equipment is loaded at its maximum capacity, in case of an accident or breakdown, it is usually not possible to compensate the loss from other equipment,” he said.

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