Increase in electricity consumption compared to last year

According to Energy Press, the country’s peak electricity demand in the thirty-fourth week of this year reached 48,650 megawatts on Sunday (November 3). It should be noted that this amount of electricity consumption in the same period last year was 45,298 megawatts, which is a 7.4 percent increase this year.
Also, the amount of electricity consumption on the mentioned day was 1,15,235 megawatt-hours, which is a 5.68 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Also, the growth in electricity demand since the beginning of this year has been reported to be 4.72 percent.