Financial Tribune- Iran is finalizing a flurry of new deals in the water and power sectors while efforts are underway to restore a large and shrunken lake in northwest Iran, one of the country's biggest environmental challenges in years, the caretaker energy minister said. "Water and power industries are capital-intensive. About 10 billion ($11....

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday appointed Sattar Mahmoudi as the caretaker minister of energy, after his pick for the post failed to win a vote of confidence from the parliament. In a decree on Sunday, President Rouhani put Mahmoudi in charge of the Energy Ministry for a temporary period. Earlier in the morning, all the ...

Press TV- Iran says it is working on a project to look for water from underground resources what could take the country back to ancient times when the inhabitants dug deep wells to answer water shortages. Sattar Mahmoudi, Irans deputy energy minister, was quoted by the domestic media as saying that the project envisages looking for underground ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy energy minister said a host of foreign firms have shown enthusiasm for investment in Irans electricity and water industries, noting that regular meetings are underway to single out the most perfect from among them. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Deputy Energy Minister Sattar Mahmoudi said a lot of meetings ...

TEHRAN Dec 14 (Shana)--Plans are under way in Irans power sector to increase electricity generation by building new power plants, deputy Minister of Energy Sattar Mahmoudi said. Mahmoudi said in addition to boosting electricity generation through building new power plants, Energy Ministry will change 16 thousand megawatts of gas-burning power plants ...

Kuala Lumpur, May 19, IRNA Minister of roads and rural development, deputy energy minister, and mayor of Tehran are scheduled to leave Tehran for Singapore on invitations from that countrys officials to take part in 4 international conferences held there simultaneously. The Minister of Roads of Rural Development Abbas Akhoundi is invited by the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans priorities in electricity exports begin with countrys western, eastern and southern neighbors, while exports to Europe are among the long term plans of the country, a deputy energy minister said Saturday. Although there have been talks for connecting the Iranian and Russian electricity networks aimed at exporting Iranian electrical ...