July 17, 2012. Three new power plants will come on stream in Iran which will increase the country's power generation capacity by 4 GW. Two 648 MW power plants have been inaugurated since the beginning of this year. The Energy Ministry will roll out power projects that will increase Iran's electricity generation capacity by 5 GW this year which began on March 20th 2012. Over 10 GW should be added to the generation capacity of hydroelectric and thermal power plants by August 2013.