Tehran, Iran, May 23
By Emil Ilgar - Trend:
Iran has planned to increase gas deliveries to power plants by 7 billion cubic meters (bcm) to 65 bcm in the current fiscal year (started on March 21), Hamidreza Aragi as Director General of Iran's National gas company said.
During the last fiscal year, supplying gas to power sector reached 58 bcm, sharing 83 percent in total fuel deliveries to this sector, Aragi told Shana news agency.
He added that Iranian power plants currently need 73.5 bcm of gas.
Iran supplied 50 bcm and 38 bcm of gas to power plants during the fiscal years, corresponding to 2014 and 2013.
According to the latest report, released by Iran's Energy Ministry, some 7.619 bcm of gas was suppied to power sector in 55 days of the current fiscal year, indicates a 9.7 percent decrease year-to-year.
The country also consumed 531 million liters of liquid fuels in this sector during the mentioned period.