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Minister: Iran's Electricity Generation Capacity Up to 69,500 Megawatts

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou said that Iran's electricity generation capacity has risen to 69,500 megawatts now from 7,024 megawatts in the year 1979 when the Islamic Revolution took place.

Namjou said that 31,400 megawatts were added to the capacity of the country's power plants in Ahmadinejad's administrations.

The minister said that over the past 8 years, 69 dams were built with a total capacity to reserve 52.5 billion cubic meters of water, the Islamic republic news agency reported.
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