Speaking during the unveiling ceremony, Jahangiri counted the accomplishment of the power plant as a great national breakthrough, IRIB news agency reported September 1.
The Siah-Bisheh plant is a symbol of national will in doing great jobs, proving that Iranian experts can carry out giant projects, he said.
Jahangiri pointed out that the power plant has been under construction for decades and said that all the administrations that came to power after the Islamic revolution have had a hand in the project.
The plant includes two dams at two vertical levels, pumping water from the lower dam to the upper during low-consumption hours and releasing the water for generating electricity to be used in the national power grid during peak times.
Iran’s peak power consumption hit 50,000 megawatts per hour in the current Iranian-calendar year (which started March 21).
The power plant was built with a fund of 13 trillion rials (each 29,900 rials making 1 USD).
There is the equivalent of 74,000 megawatts electricity output power plants in the country waiting to turn operational.
If these are to be carried out according to plans, Iran will see 5,000 boosts in power output each year. But many of the projects are not progressing as they should due to financial problems.
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