Fixing the electricity imbalance requires 25 billion dollars of investment

According to Energy Press, Mehdi Masalemi said about the power imbalance and blackouts and the industry’s solution to overcome the current situation: Currently, blackouts are carried out according to the program in different sectors, including agriculture and industry, for example, the meters of agricultural wells are 5 hours a day. (from 13:00 to 18:00) they will be cut off and out of the circuit, industrial towns and large industries have also been given a schedule of what time the blackout will be applied.
Stating that now we should expect even worse than the current situation, he said: There has been no investment in the electricity industry for more than a decade, the magnet for attracting capital in this industry has become very weak and thin, and this has caused 8 to have a 4% consumption growth, while the production growth was not even 2.5%.
The Secretary of the Electricity Industry Syndicate said: We should not expect more when production and consumption do not match and there is a big gap between them. So this year the situation has worsened compared to the previous year, last year we had a deficit of 10 to 12 thousand megawatts of electricity, this year the difference between supply and demand power is 18 to 19 thousand megawatts, and this shows that the imbalance has grown by 50% because of the increase in consumption. It has been much more than production.
He emphasized: When consumption increases over production, we definitely have a technical imbalance, and in order to optimize this issue, it is not possible in the short term only by saving and optimizing, and in the medium and long term, it is not possible to inject capital and launch projects, and it is not possible to implement the project in the industry as well. A power plant takes 5 years, that is, if the construction of a thermal power plant is called for today, it will not be operational in less than 5 years. Generally, if the 14th government wants to take action regarding the construction of the power plant, it will be operated by the 15th government, and if it does not take action, the previous governments They did not do anything, the result of the situation will remain the same as now.
Saying that the root of the solution to the electricity problem lies in revising international communications and attracting foreign investment, he said: “If this does not happen, regardless of whether the fall and winter of 1403 is drought or drought, the situation can get worse, except that this year in some parts of the country, We are also experiencing water scarcity, that is, in addition to the fact that the industries do not have electricity, they also do not have water, and in some areas, the gas situation is not suitable.
He pointed out: We must spend 20 to 25 billion dollars in the electricity industry in the next 4 years to have 130,000 megawatts of planned power plant capacity and overcome today’s imbalance, in other words, 40,000 megawatts must be added to the current 92,000 megawatts .
The Secretary of the Electricity Industry Syndicate stated: The current government had a plan to build 35,000 megawatts of electricity generation from the industry sector and 35,000 megawatts of renewable energy, but it was not implemented because it did not have money, and no contractor is willing to build a power plant that does not earn money.