Azerbaijan , Baku, Feb. 22 / Trend, A.Yusifzade /
Iran will establish 31 energy service companies to develop technical feasibility studies to reduce energy consumption in domestic, commercial and industrial sector, shortly, Naft News reported quoting Iran's Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Engineering & Domestic Manufacturing, Hamdollah Mohammadnejad as saying.
According to Mohammadnejad, 40 percent of Iranian electricity consumption fells on domestic sector and it can be reduced by 20-25 percent.
Earlier Iran has fixed new electricity, water and gas prices within the governmental plan to reduce the subsidies.
According to the agency, electricity tariffs were raised from 1.6 cents up to 4.5 cents per 1 kWh, water tariffs from 8 cents up to 28 cents per 1 cubic meter, gas tarrifs from 1, 3 cents up to 7.0 cents per cubic meter from December 19, 2010.
The petrol prices were reported to increase by four times due to cut in the governmental subsidies for the population.
