Iran, Islamic Republic of

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

 Fossil fuels Nuclear  Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
renewable
Total amount in specific units*  1 080.3  155.63  32.81  1 390** n.d. *** n.d. ***

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

1980 1990 2000 2010 2016* Compound annual growth rate (%)
2000–2016
Total final consumption [EJ]**
- Total 1.22 2.02 3.72 6.36 7.10 4.12
- Solids*** 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.05 5.89
- Liquids 1.00 1.60 2.20 2.40 2.30 0.28
- Gases 0.10 0.20 1.20 3.20 3.90 7.64
- Nuclear — — — — — —
- Hydro — — — — — —
- Electricity 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.70 0.80 6.32
- Other renewables — — — — — —
Energy production
- Total 3.44 8.15 11.34 15.36 14.82 1.69
- Solids*** 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.04 1.81
- Liquids 3.20 7.30 9.00 9.80 7.50 –1.13
- Gases 0.20 0.80 2.30 5.50 7.20 7.39
- Nuclear — — — — 0.03 —
- Hydro 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.03 0.05 10.58
- Other renewables — — 0.0001 0.001 0.001 15.48
Net import (Import–Export) [EJ]
- Total –2.00 –5.20 –5.80 –5.80 –3.70 –2.77

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

1980 1990 2000 2010 2015
2016*
 Compound annual growth rate (%) 2000 to 2016
Capacity of electrical plants (GW(e)) G/N
- Thermal G 7.824 13.470 25.189 52.872 61.633 63.628 5.96
- Hydro G 1.804 1.953 2.007 8.488 11.278 11.578 11.58
- Nuclear G — — — — 1.020 1.020 —
- Renewables G - - 0.011 0.100 0.173 0.203 19.99
- Total G 9.628 15.423 27.207 61.460 74.104 76.429 6.67
Electricity production (TWh) G/N
- Thermal G 14.261 53.019 114.791 223.260 263.393 265.775 5.39
- Hydro G 5.620 6.083 3.665 9.526 14.087 16.419 9.83
- Nuclear G — — — — 2.950 6.711 —
- Other renewable G — — 0.037 0.173 0.259 0.290 13.73
- Total ** G 19.881 59.102 118.493 232.959 280.689 289.195 5.73
Total electricity consumption (TWh) 16.864 45.107 90.366 184.182 235.5 237.436 6.22

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2010 2016*
Energy consumption per capita (equivalent barrel/capita) 4.62 6.16 9.56 13.94 14.67
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) 429.21 827.91 1 407.15 2 482.91 3 007.54
Electricity production/Energy production (%) n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.30
Ratio of external dependency (%) ** –163.93 –257.43 –155.91 –92.06 –52.11

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2017

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]		 Status Operator Reactor
Supplier		 Construction
Date		 First
Criticality
Date		 First Grid
Date		 Commercial
Date		 Shutdown
Date		 UCF
for
2017
BUSHEHR-1 PWR 915 Operational NPPDCO JSC ASE 1975-05-01 2011-05-08 2011-09-03 2013-09-23 80.4
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.

TABLE 6. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit/Project name Owner Type Capacity in MW(e) Expected construction start year Expected commercial year
BUSHEHR-2 AEOI WWER 1 057 2017 2024
BUSHEHR-3 AEOI WWER 1 057 2017 2026