Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
The stored electricity of Iran's power plants has reached zero on July 20.
Iran's electricity consumption peak on the same day reached 47,105 megawatt hours, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on July 21.
As the electricity consumption of the country nears its total production, temporary power outages is expected in the country.
The electricity consumption rate in Iran is sharply increasing in summer.
Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on July 13 that the stored liquid gas of Iranian power plants is nearly gone. If the oil ministry fails to provide enough gas to the power plants, then numerous blackouts would be expected across the country in summer.
Iranian oil ministry's latest report suggests that in the past weeks the liquid fuel consumption of the country's power plants has been doubled.
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.
Iran's total liquid fuel output (including gasoline, diesel oil, mazut, and kerosene) is a little more than 265 million liters per day. In another words, the country's power plants consumed over 55 percent of the total liquid fuel produced in the country, which is twice the consumption rate of previous year.
According to the oil ministry, Iran's power plants averagely consumed 77 million liters of liquid fuel in the previous year.
The government limits transferring gas to power plants in winter, and instead delivers liquid fuel to the plants. But in summer the ministry has enough gas to meet the power plants' demands.
The figure of liquid gas being transferred to the power plants this summer is nearly twice the previous year and even more that winter.
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.
Iran's natural gas output currently stands at 570 million cubic meters per day.