Iran’s power grid suffers 7,500 megawatts of damage across 2,000 strike points

Iran’s state-run electricity company Tavanir has disclosed the scale of damage to the country’s power grid, reporting that more than 2,000 points across the national electricity network were hit, knocking out roughly 7,500 megawatts of generation capacity. The financial toll has been estimated at more than 60 trillion tomans, roughly $1 billion to $1.5 billion. That figure covers direct infrastructure damage to the electricity sector alone. What Tavanir’s leadership is saying Tavanir CEO Mohammad Allah-Dad reported that the company had confirmed a loss of approximately 4,200 megawatts of capacity as of July 2026. The strikes affected generation facilities, transmission infrastructure, and distribution networks at over 2,000 discrete points on the grid. Earlier, Iran’s Deputy Energy Minister provided a broader damage assessment, stating that more than 7,000 megawatts of generation capacity had been compromised during the conflict. The gap between the two figures reflects the difference between total initial damage and what remained offline after early restoration work. Repair crews have managed to bring roughly 2,500 megawatts back online. Iran’s pre-conflict electricity generation ...