Iran's power grid is going mobile. After unveiling the country's first mobile dispatching center in Khorasan Razavi, Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi has ordered the model to be rolled out nationwide. Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, deputy for electricity and energy, will draft the necessary directives.
Built by Khorasan Regional Electricity Company experts, the unit is designed for emergencies and remote areas where fixed dispatch centers are hard to reach. It can deploy quickly and monitor the grid online. In its first operational test, it linked up with the National Dispatching Center.
During a visit, Aliabadi stressed new technologies for crisis management and asked Rajabi Mashhadi to extend the model to other regional power companies.
Rajabi Mashhadi said mobile dispatching allows real-time monitoring and maneuver commands independent of fixed centers. "It lets us monitor and command operations at different grid points, reducing geographic limits," he said. Directives will soon be issued to regional firms to boost grid resilience in emergencies.
With secure, independent communications, the center can be stationed at critical nodes and help manage stability operations—marking a shift toward flexible, decentralized grid control. The ministry says the approach will strengthen response capacity during peak demand and outages.
