2 billion dollar debt of the electricity industry

According to Energy Press report, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, during the morning meeting of the Islamic Council and during the hearing of the government’s request to review the emergency bill to add a paragraph to note (5) of the single article of the budget law of 1402 of the whole country, stating that “with the beginning The 13th government gradually removed the series of dissatisfactions of the electricity industry from the country and appropriate measures were taken to solve a significant part of the dissatisfactions with the help of the parliament”, he said: In the summer of 1400, despite the widespread blackouts that we had from April to the end of September In the household sector, 48 billion kilowatt hours of electricity was supplied from June 1 to October 15. Of course, we had planned outages up to 3 times a day, and unfortunately we had unfavorable conditions in the industry and agriculture sectors.
He added: In the industrial sector in the summer of 1400, 36 billion kilowatts of electricity was supplied and a series of measures were taken, the supply of electricity to the household sector with incentive measures such as the saving bonus plan and people’s cooperation, despite the addition of 2 million new subscribers, 2 billion kilowatt hours We had a decrease in electricity consumption and in the industrial sector, electricity supply reached from 36 billion to 46 billion 100 million kilowatt hours, and for the first time, the supply of the industrial sector surpassed the domestic sector.
Emphasizing that the electricity industry is a very costly industry, the Minister of Energy said: price correction is necessary in this industry, and with the laws that have been established, the work has started with the approach of not putting pressure on the sections of the society in such a way that the price correction is not necessary. The result has not resulted in an increase in the price of sub-standard consumption and sectors such as agriculture, and even the costs of sectors such as support sectors have reached zero.