TEHRAN – Iran’s Thermal Power Plant Holding (TPPH) has managed to achieve the knowledge for the domestic production of more than 800,000 power plant parts and equipment over the last five years, an official with the company said.

“Over the past five years, more than 800,000 strategic parts have been manufactured in the thermal power industry of the country, which is the result of the training of expert employees, and we hope that this movement will continue,” Naser Eskandari said.

In the past, the power plant industry was highly dependent on foreign sources, but currently, 91 percent of power plant parts in the country are produced by domestic manufacturers, and this success is the result of the courage, timely decisions, and experience of experts in this field.

According to the official, all of the country’s power plants were 99 percent on the grid during the current year’s summer peak consumption period, while the figure is at most 95 percent worldwide.

Back in November, the managing director of Iran Power Plant Repairs Company (IPRC) said his company managed to achieve the knowledge for the domestic production of more than 6,300 power plant parts and equipment in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-November 21).

According to Masoud Moradi, the production of the mentioned parts saved the country over €2.6 million.

“Today, specialized repairs in the power plant industry using the modern science and knowledge of equipment manufacturing is the most important necessity to completely solve the concerns of this industry,” Moradi said.

Earlier this year, Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Haeri had said that most of the power plant parts are made domestically and few imports are done because some parts are more efficient to be imported than produced.

“More than 90 percent of the parts are produced inside the country and we are known as a self-sufficient and high-level country in this industry,” Haeri told IRNA.

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