Iran opens modern monitoring center for its power plants

The Iranian Energy Ministry has opened the first intelligent center for monitoring the performance of its power plants.

The Intelligent Power Plant Condition Monitoring Center was opened on Wednesday at Shariati Combined Cycle Power Plant in Iran’s second-largest city of Mashhad.

The semi-official ILNA news agency said in a report that the launch of the center would be a major step toward efficiency in the Iranian electricity generation sector.

It said technicians and scientists from the Sharif University of Technology had been involved in the design and launch of the new facility.

The center will mainly focus on the online monitoring of turbines in power plants, helping technicians and managers to speed up their decision-making process, especially before potential malfunctions, the report said.

It added that the new system will also improve cyber security at Iranian power plants while helping boost efficiency through the use of artificial intelligence in analyzing big data.

Iran hopes modernizing its electricity sector could lead to more reliability in its power grid.

Experts say aging equipment in Iran’s thermal power plants has contributed to power cuts in the country in recent months.

They say that the lack of modern technologies has also inflicted major operational costs on the state electricity company Tavanir.

Deputy president for science and technology Hossein Afshin hailed the launch of the first intelligent monitoring center in power plants in Iran as a sign that domestic companies are becoming increasingly involved in the country’s massive energy sector.

He said that the Pasargad Energy Development Company, which has been responsible for the project, has also contributed to similar schemes in Iran’s petroleum sector.

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