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Peak of electricity consumption rises 4 percent in Iran

Oil&Gas Materials 23 July 2014 15:26 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 23

By Fatih Karimov - Trend:

Peak of electricity consumption has increased 4 percent in Iran.

Iran Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Management Company (TAVANIR) official Alireza Ahmad Yazdi said the peak of consumption is forecast to reach 50,000 megawatts in the current year, the IRNA news agency reported on July 23.

Last week, electricity generation amounted to 47,300 megawatts, he added.

Industrial units account for about 34 percent of total electricity consumption in the country, he noted.

Electricity consumption rate in Iran is sharply increasing in summer.

Iran's Fars News Agency reported on July 15 that the figure is now near the country's total generation capacity.

If the oil ministry fails to provide enough gas to the power plants, then numerous blackouts is to be expected across the country in summer.

According to SHANA News Agency, some 2.02 billion liters of liquid fuel (diesel oil and mazut) was consumed in Iran in the first two weeks of summer (145 million liters per day). The figure was around 1.044 million liters (some 150 million liters per day) in the last week of spring.

According to the oil ministry, Iran's power plants averagely consumed 77 million liters of liquid fuel in the previous year.

Iran has 75 power plants with the liquid gas reserves enough for 45 days. The power plants have the capacity to receive over 200 million cubic meters of gas per day, but due to gas shortage the country meets around 40 percent of the power plants' needs with liquid fuel.

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