New electricity projects worth nearly $500 million are opened in five Iranian provinces.

Iran says its electricity grid has outperformed leading countries of the world in terms of reliability.

Britain's energy regulator said on Friday it has fined three electricity suppliers a total of 10.5 million pounds for a power outage last August which affected one million customers and caused transport chaos.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces the approval of the 2020 state budget envisaging a deficit of 0.6% of gross domestic product.

An Iranian official says over 3,800 MW of new power plants will go on line until next summer.

Iran is mulling to overprice renewable electricity to encourage more private funding in the sector.

Iran says the private sector owns over two thirds of the capacity of thermal power plants in the country.