Ahamdinejad opens Ardebil power plant

The new phase of the plant has been set up at the cost of about 175 million dollars in Ardebil Province, IRIB reported.

The capacity of the Ardebil power plant has increased to 954 MW from 630 MW after the inauguration of the second phase.

Habib Hajizadeh, the contractor of the country’s gas power plants, said that more than 90 percent of equipment installed in the plant has been made in Iran.

The first phase of the plant came on stream in 2009.

Last week, President Ahmadinejad launched phases 5 and 6 of another combined cycle gas plant in West Azarbaijan Province.

The combined cycle gas plant, with the capacity of 1,000 MW, was built at the cost of about 170 million dollars in the city of Orumiyeh.