Iran is lining up water and electricity projects worth $50 billion for investment after the removal of sanctions, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian says.

TVEL, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-run nuclear energy company Rosatom, says it will deliver fresh nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr power plant by the end of this month.

Iran says it will soon sign deals with German companies for setting up new electricity generation plants as the country seeks to add up to 37,000 megawatts to its national power grid.

Pakistan says it is in the final stages of talks to clinch a deal for a tenfold hike of electricity imports from neighboring Iran.

Typhoon Soudelor hits China, killing at least 14 people, state media says.

Iran and Armenia sign a contract for construction of the third power transmission line between the two countries.

Italy’s Fata, the engineering unit of the country’s leading group Finmeccanica, has signed a 500 million euro ($543 million) contract with Ghadir Investment Company to build a power plant in Iran.

Several major European companies will arrive in Tehran soon to discuss participation and investment in Iran’s power industry projects, a deputy energy minister says.

Iran has fully designed, engineered and constructed a water turbine for the first time, etching a niche in the renewable energy industry.

Iran’s hydroelectricity generation is flickering out amid a protracted drought which has drained dams across the country to their lowest ebb ever.