Tehran, Iran, June 7
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
The power consumed for household lighting in Iran is equal to 20 million barrels of oil per year, according to an announcement by the Iran Energy Efficiency Organization (IEEO).
Raising concern over the high energy consumption rate, the organization called on Iranians to frugally use power to prevent outage in the summer heat, the IEEO website reported June 7.
Noting that experts have predicted a power consumption of over 52,000 megawatts for this summer in Iran, the IEEO suggested that Iranians use new technologies to decrease their household power need.
Statistics show that out of the total power produced in Iran, 33.7 percent goes to households, 31.5 percent is consumed in industries, 9.4 percent in the public sector, 16.1 percent in agriculture, 2.1 percent for lighting public passages, and 7.3 percent in the trade sector.
The IEEO experts say households use 777.9 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in Iran. The lighting of households, according to the statistics, stands at 10 billion kilowatt hours per year, equal to 20 million barrels of oil.