While these days the companies active in the steel industry are struggling with the challenge of limiting the supply of electricity and reducing production in the midst of heat, the Investment Company for the Development of Mines and Metals has succeeded in preventing power outages in the production units of eight complexes by creating a self-sufficient power plant. bring the industry to zero.
These days, the country’s steel production is increasing every year with a larger volume than last year, however, this job-creating and currency-generating industry is also facing challenges on the way to increasing production, one of the main of which is energy supply during peak consumption seasons. Steelmakers are struggling with gas outages in winter and electricity outages in summer.
In the meantime, the Mining and Metals Development Investment Company as a holding company, which has been operating in the country’s mining industry for nearly three decades, has solved this problem not only for itself, but also for a number of other industrial units in the country.
This company has managed to build the first self-sufficient power plant units in the country in the form of a memorandum of understanding between the Ministries of Security and Power. Therefore, with the construction of units 3 and 4 of Quds Semnan power plant, there are eight industrial joint ventures in the country, including Qaenat Steel, West Iran Smelter, Azarbaijan Steel, Golghar Mining and Industrial, Sabanur Mining and Industrial Development, Midane Steel, Mobarakeh Steel and Sangan Steel, part of They supply their electricity through this power plant.
Mines and Metals Development Investment Company has advanced this project along with its other development programs in the fields of exploration, copper, coal and rare earth elements, which takes place simultaneously with the development of the steel value chain, and has officially joined the country’s electricity producers by creating Poya Energy Company. Is.
Ardeshir Saadmohammadi, CEO of the company, said in a comment a while ago that the main policy of the holding is to invest in the development of mines and metals, to complete the value chain and to establish a balance in the value chain, for example, even though providing electricity needed by industries is a sovereign duty. but the lack of electricity and frequent power outages cause a lot of unprofitability for the companies of the group. Therefore, the investment holding for the development of mines and metals is obliged to reduce this problem by establishing a power plant as much as possible; Moreover, a specialized holding in the field of electricity under the name of “Poya Energy” company has been established under the Investment Holding for the Development of Mines and Metals.
Poya Energy Company started its work in 2016; Of course, it used to be a company that operated in the field of mining, but with the change of name and statute, Poyayanergy Production and Development Company was formed. Since the mentioned time, this group started its work in the field of electricity production with Semnan power plant and 24.5% shares of Sirjan Gehran Energy Company; Shahid Bakri Semnan gas power plant development project is one of the most important projects on the agenda of this company and it is also included in the list of 48 economic driving projects.
This project includes two gas turbines with a total production capacity of 366 megawatts of electricity, which is added to the previous capacity of the power plant; About 80 million euros have been invested for its implementation, and capable domestic specialists are responsible for its design and implementation.
It should be noted that the Semnan power plant project is a record breaker in the implementation of such projects due to the delivery of its first phase 180 days ahead of schedule. The current production of electric energy in the country is about 12 thousand megawatts less than the amount required for its consumption, and the development and improvement of the efficiency of power plants is currently one of the main needs of the country, especially in the industry sector.
Dynamic energy guarantees no power outages
Also, according to Seyyed Mohammadzaman Zavalan, CEO of Poya Energy Production and Development Company, electricity buyers from Shahid Bakri power plant in Semnan have a guarantee of no power cut for industries in the summer and are not subject to summer blackouts. He has also mentioned that there is no guarantee of non-interruption in any of the country’s power plants; Because this is the first power plant of the 10,000 megawatt plan of the MoU between the Ministries of Safety and Energy, and the power plants under this MoU have a guarantee of non-interruption and exemption from electricity transit fees.
Today, the necessary stability tests have been carried out in the power plant, and a bilateral contract for the sale of electricity has been exchanged and finalized with several steelmaking units.
Gas units increase their efficiency by converting to a combined cycle, and this plays a key role considering the country’s need for energy in industries and the issue of gas fuel supply limitations.
