{"id":17758,"date":"2026-07-25T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:07:14","slug":"irans-first-geothermal-power-plant-connected-to-national-electricity-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/17758\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s first geothermal power plant connected to national electricity grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The Minister of Energy said: The Meshgin-Shahr geothermal power plant in Ardebil, with a capacity of five megawatts and an investment of 10 million euros, has been connected to the national electricity grid and has entered the cycle of electrical energy generation.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Aliabadi, stating that this project is being built as a pilot on a geothermal energy reservoir with a production capacity of about 250 megawatts by the Thermal Power Generation Holding Company, added: The implementation of this project has enabled our country to acquire the knowledge of exploration, design, execution, and operation of geothermal resources.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Energy, pointing to the preparation of the final synchronization stages of this project amid the country&#8217;s wartime conditions, stated: For the exploration and extraction of the mentioned geothermal resources, several wells have been drilled to a depth of about three thousand meters with a production capacity of 30 megawatts, of which five megawatts have been brought online in the first phase.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that in the process of implementing this project, we are seeking to develop geothermal energy as a clean and sustainable energy source and boost the region&#8217;s economy through attracting tourists, he continued: In the next steps of this project, we are striving to expand the capacity of the Meshgin-Shahr power plant and its existing wells, and then develop the entire explored reservoir in this region and develop geothermal power plants in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aliabadi noted: Expanding the use of renewable geothermal energy for electricity generation, acquiring the technology and knowledge of operating geothermal resources, localizing the technical know-how for the sustainable operation of geothermal reservoirs, and reducing dependence on fossil resources are among the objectives of launching this project.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s first geothermal power plant is being built by the Thermal Power Generation Holding Company, 25 kilometers south of Meshgin-Shahr city, in northwestern Ardebil province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of Energy said: The Meshgin-Shahr geothermal power plant in Ardebil, with a capacity of five megawatts and an investment of 10 million euros, has been connected to the national electricity grid and has entered the cycle of electrical energy generation.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,22,36,45,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-renewable-energy","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17760,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions\/17760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}