Electricity available to nearly 59,000 villages in Iran: Tavanir

Recent data by Iran’s Energy Ministry shows that nearly 59,000 villages across Iran have been provided with access to electricity.

Figures released by Iran’s state electricity company Tavanir on Wednesday showed that some 118 more villages had been supplied with power in the calendar year to late March 2025, bringing to 58,907 the total number of villages in the country with access to electricity.

The data showed that some 28,500 nomadic families in Iran have also been connected to stable electricity supplies with some 7,500 using portable solar panels as their main source of energy.

Tavanir CEO Mostafa Rajabi said that the company had spent some 150 trillion rails ($150 million) on electricity projects for rural and nomadic households since 2021, including on the renovation of electrical installations in nearly 22,000 villages.

Rajabi said that more than 34,000 kilometers of transmission lines supplying electricity to Iranian villages had been repaired or replaced over the past four years, adding that nearly 7,900 new transformers had been added to the network over the same period.

He said that Iran had also increased its investment in electricity projects in remote islands in the Persian Gulf as part of a government drive to expand housing projects in those strategic islands.

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