Text of report citing "Reporters' Club" headlined "Energy minister: 10 power plants to be privatized by year end" published by Iranian newspaper Resalat on 27 September Minister of Energy Parviz Fattah said: "The ministry plans to privatize 10 power plants by the end of the year [20 March 2009], either through auction or the stock market.

Text of report by the Economic Desk headlined "Replacing two deputy ministers from the Ministry of Power due to electricity and water problems" published by Iranian newspaper E'temad website on 24 August The power cuts and electricity blackouts have claimed a sacrificial victim in the days when the minister of power had announced that there was going to be a reduction in power disruptions.

Khuzestan Provincial TV in its 1215 gmt bulletin on 22 July broadcast a video report on the remarks made by the minister of energy on saving energy.

Minister of energy, Parviz Fattah emphasized saving energy during his visit to Ramin thermal power plant in Ahvaz.He said that to make up for the reduction in generated electricity power, this year (Iranian year started 20 March 2008) there has been an increase of 27 per cent in electricity production.

Text of report headlined: "10,000 megawatts of electricity gone missing!" published by Iranian newspaper Aftab-e Yazd website on 30 June While Bitaraf, Khatami's energy minister, said in his last interview late last year that the ninth government was given 40,000 megawatts of electricity three years ago [or in the last three years], the present Energy Minister Parviz Fattah states that in spite of the ninth government bringing tens of thousands of megawatts of electricity online, electricity production capacity is less than 40,000 megawatts, Tabnak reported.