JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump again threatened to attack Iran's power plant if Tehran did not return to the negotiating table.
"Next week will be very bad for them, because next week it will be the turn of the power plant that will be targeted," Trump said.
Iran has about 110 gas-fired power plants - some of them hybrid - according to data from OpenInfraMap, an open source intelligence tool for researching energy infrastructure compiled by volunteers.
According to the site, Iran also operates solar, water (hydro), wind, oil, diesel, coal, geothermal, and nuclear power plants.
The three largest power plants by output capacity use gas fuel:
- Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP): located about 70 km southeast of downtown Tehran. Capacity: 2,868 MW.
- Shahid Salimi: located in Mazandaran province, near the Caspian Sea. Capacity: 2,215 MW.
- Shahid Rajai: located about 110 km northeast of downtown Tehran. Capacity: 2,043 MW.
For comparison: West County Energy Center in Florida is the largest operating natural gas-fired power plant in the US, with a capacity of 3,750 MW, according to OpenInfraMap.
Iran produces most of its electricity using fossil fuels. More than 340,000 GWh of electricity is generated from these fuels, while almost 28,000 GWh comes from renewable energy in 2023, according to data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website.
According to the IAEA, Iran states that it only has one nuclear power plant reactor in operation - the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in the western region - and another one under construction.
In 2023, Iran produced 5,740 GWh of electricity from nuclear energy.
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