Iran Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 80.553 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 279,826,390,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 6.365 billion kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 2.738 billion kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 34.303 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 88.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 1.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 9.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 1 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 1

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 0.92GW (2023)

Percent of total electricity production: 0.1% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 0.19% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 2.783 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 2.794 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 76,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 87,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 1.203 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 3,450,300 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 1.934 million bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 2,230,900 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 33,500 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 208.6 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

1.764 million bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

397,200 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

64,160 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 237,561,415,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 220,704,282,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 17,607,046,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 1,153,457,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 33,987,296,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

646.038 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 5.142 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 204.21 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 436.687 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

145.54 million Btu/person (2019 est.)