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Iran’s high energy intensity, contribution of multiple sectors

Business Materials 17 December 2017 15:03 (UTC +04:00)
Iran recycles 28 percent of its used oil and gas whereas the figure for certain countries stands at 60 percent

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 15

By Mehdi Sepahvand – Trend:

Iran recycles 28 percent of its used oil and gas whereas the figure for certain countries stands at 60 percent.

In 2015, Iran’s per capita energy consumption was 15 times that of Japan and 10 times that of European Union.

According to Mohammad Shekarchizadeh, head of Research Institute for Roads, Housing, and Urban Development, the consumption of energy carriers in Iran is four times of global standards.

"Prior to this, we were not sensitive about the issue of energy consumption in the housing sector. This very fact has made us suffer great damages," Shekarchizadeh told IRINN TV on Thursday.

He noted that the Iranian government has been obliged to improve energy consumption in its buildings to global standards in five years.

This is while the majority of domestic gas consumption, which goes to warm up houses, cook food, or warm water, goes untreated because it falls in the hands of the ordinary people who have little access to latest energy sufficiency technology and less access to financial resources to take them into account for building their houses.

"Household gas consumption exceeded 457 million cubic meters on Friday (Dec. 8)," Majid Boujarzadeh, spokesman of state-run gas company NIGC said last week.

The figure comprises nearly 50 percent of Iran's total gas production capacity of around 850 million cubic meters a day. That is also more than the actual output level of South Pars, a giant offshore gas deposit in the Persian Gulf.

Moving on to the auto sector, it was recently said by officials that 93 percent of fuel stations in the Iranian capital city of Tehran is receiving Euro 4 standard gasoline and gas oil. This is while majority of the vehicles trafficking the busy streets of the metropolis remain at the Euro 2 standard.

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