Unprecedented record of electricity consumption in Iran with increasing temperature

According to Energy Press, Mustafa Rajabi Mashhadi pointed out that in the last days of spring, new installations were registered in the electricity industry of the country and said: The installation of electricity consumption demand is 73,645 megawatts in the country, while the highest peak load figure of last year, which was in It happened on August 15, 1402. It was about 200 megawatts less than this year’s peak load, it is really shocking.

The spokesperson of the electricity industry added: Another strange phenomenon was the temperature above 50 degrees in the city of Ahvaz and several other cities in Khuzestan province, as a result of which Ahvaz was declared the hottest city in the world the other day.

Stating that the amount of demand for electricity consumption for the last days of spring shows a growing growth of 10%, Rajabi Mashhadi said: the normal growth of electricity consumption is usually 3 to 5%, and the figure of 10% currently shows a high consumption growth.

Pointing out that the maximum daily energy consumption was 10% more than the previous year and reached one billion and 551 million kilowatt hours, CEO Tavanir said: Most of the provinces in the country, except for Azerbaijan, Mazandaran and Khorasan, the amount of electricity consumption demand During the peak time, they surpassed the previous year’s consumption and these new installations, which are registered with a short time interval, show that the electricity consumption in the country is very high.